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Crackles
- High pitched
- Heard during inspiration
- Not cleared by a cough
- Discontinuous
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Rhonchi
- Loud, low course sounds
- Sounds like a snore
- During inspiration or expiration
- May clear with cough
- Continuous
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Wheeze
- Musical nosie during inspiration or expiration
- Usually louder
- Continuous
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Right lobe
- Have 3 lobes
- Right middle lobe is the hardest to hear
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Left lobe
Has 2 lobes because of the heart
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Normal breath sounds
- Vesicular
- Bronchiovesicular
- Bronchial
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Vesicular sounds
- Heard over most of the lung
- Soft, low- pitched sound
- Inspiration is longer than expiration
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Bronchiovesicular Sounds
- Heard most clearly when the bronchi and trachea are close to the chest wall along the scapular area.
- Heard as medium-pitched sounds
- Inspiration and expiration are about equal
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Bronchial breathing
- Loud high pitched blowing sound
- Expiration is longer than the inspiration
- Heard over the trachea
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Adventitious (abnormal ) breath sounds
- Crackles
- Wheeze
- Ronchi
- Pleural friction rub
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Pleural friction rub
- caused by inflammation or fibrin deposit between the moist layers of the of the pleura.
- present on inspiration and expiration
- low pitched, rubbing or grating
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Number of landmarks on anterior chest
5
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Number of landmarks on the posterior chest
9
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Order of how breath flow
- Nares
- Nasal Pharnyx
- Oral Pharnyx
- Pharnyx
- Larnyx
- Trachea
- Bronchi
- Bronchioles
- Alveoli
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