Bowel Sounds

Right upper quadrant
- Ascending and tranverse colon
- Duodenum
- Gallbladder
- Hepatic flexure of colon
- Liver
- Pancreas (head)
- Pylorus
- Right adrenal gland
- Right kidney (upper pole)
- Right Ureter
Left Upper Quadrant
- Left adrenal gland
- Left kidney (upper pole)
- Left ureter
- Pancreas (body and tail)
- Spleen
- Splenic flexure of colon
- Stomach
- Transverse colon
Right Lower Quadrant
- Appendix
- Ascending colon
- Cecum
- Right kidney (lower pole)
- Right ovary and tube
- Right ureter
- Right spermatic cord
Left Lower Quadrants
- Left Kidney ( lower pole)
- Left ureter
- Left ovary and tube
- Left spermatic cord
- Sigmoid colon
Midline
- Bladder
- Uterus
- Prostate
Asses for
- duration
- frequency
- loudness
Duration

less than 1 second to several seconds
Frequency
- Normal - every 5-20 seconds
- Hypoactive- every 1 minute
- Hyperactive- every 1-3 seconds
Loudness

audible ( soft, distant, loud)
If no sounds are heard in a quadrant

coontinue to listen for a minimum of 3 minutes.
Order of digestion
- Mouth
- Oral pharyn
- Esophagus
- Stomach
- Small intestine
- Duodenum
- Jejunum
- Ileum
- Cecum
- Assending colon
- Trarnsverse colon
- Desending colon
- Sigmoid colon
- Rectum
- Anus

Author

finess00

37875

Card Set

Bowel Sounds

Description

Potter-Perry

Updated

2010-09-28T04:15:34Z

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