Assessment
A fine scientific sign up the bodily exam indicating pneumonia is:
Wheezing
Hyperresonance
**Dullness on percusion
Decreased vocal fremitus
Which bodily finding is most suggestive of bronchitis?
Unilateral wheezing or rhonchi
Scattered wheezing or rhonchi
Unilateral decreased breath sounds
Inspiratory crackles
Scattered wheezing or rhonchi
A 63-year-antique mail provider affords to your hospital due to the fact he has had a cough
efficient of green sputum for two weeks, accompanied with the aid of a fever as excessive as
103°F during the last 3 days. You make a analysis of lobar pneumonia. What sort of sound
would you expect to listen with percussion?
Hyperresonant
Dull
Resonant
Tympanic
Dull
While auscultating the lungs of an overweight affected person, you would expect the breath
sounds to be:
softer and extra distant
Expected examination findings within the wholesome grownup lung include:
Increased tactile fremitus and dullness to percussion
Adventitious sounds and confined chest growth
Muffled voice sounds and symmetric tactile fremitus
Absent voice sounds and hyperresonance to percussion
Muffled voice sounds and symmetric tactile fremitus
, What 4 things are positioned within the mediastinum?
• Esophagus • Trachea • Heart • Great vessels
Apex of lungs is located
maximum factor 3-4cm above internal 0.33 of the clavicles
Base of lungs is positioned
lower border rests on diaphragm at the 6th rib MCL
Posterior lung apex is placed at
C7
Where is the bottom of the lung posteriorly?
T10
With deep notion posterior lung base drops to____.
T12
Why don't the lungs fall apart in the course of the resting phase?
Bad intrapleural pressure
External respiration includes the
diffusion of gases between the alveoli and the circulating blood
a dry cough can be related to what three matters?
ACEI
allergies
HIV
A brassy cough is the end result of a
Tracheal lesion
High pitched lung sounds are d/t what?
Airway constriction