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normal air filling
resonant
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heard over sternum, muscles or areas of atelectasis
flat
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fluid-filled organs, such as heart or liver
dull
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air filled stomach
tympanic
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pneumothorax or emphysema is present
hyperresonant
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-
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when a pt is instructed to say, E and sounds like A
egophony
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medium rales=
mid airways secretions = cpt
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fine rales/crackles=
moist rales, alveoli, fluid= ippb, heart drugs, diuretic, o2
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wheeze=
bronchospasms= bronchodilator, albuterol
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stridor=
supraglottic swelling=recemic epi
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pl friction rub=
crunching sound, inflammation rub=steroid, antibiotics
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s1 and s2=
normal heart sounds
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s3 and s4=
abnormal, recommend a echocardiogram
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the right hemidiaphragm is higher than the left due to
liver
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midline, bilateral radiolucency w/ charp costophrenics angles
trachea
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clavicles should be
leveled
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3 causes for loss of airway patency
- foreign body obs
- tracheal spasms
- air leak
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flattened diaphragm=
copd
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obliteration of the costophrenic angles=
pl effusion
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lateral decubitus= laying on the
effected side
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