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Pitch: High
Intensity: Loud, predominatly on expiration
Bronchial
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Pitch: Moderate
Intensity: Moderate
Bronchovesicular
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Pitch: High on inspirations, low on expiration
Intensity: Loud on inspiration, soft to absent on expiration
Vesicular
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Fluid like sound, bubbling high-pitched
Crackles or Rales
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Coarse rattling, gurgling, harsh moaning or snoaring quality. My be cleared by cough
Gurgles or Rhonchi
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Creaking, whistling, high-pitched, musical squeaks
Wheezes
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Grated or squeaking sounds
Pleural Friction Rub
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Long inspiratory Phase, short expiratory phase, rustling or swishing quality
Vesicular
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Short inspiratory phase, louder expiratory phase, brief pause between inspiratory and expiratory phase
Bronchial
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High pitched sounds, loud, harsh, tubular
Bronchial
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What positions will the patient be placed in to auscultate breath sounds?
Sitting, Supine, or semi fowlers
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Identify the anatomic site where the Bronchial is located.
Above Clavical
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Identify the anatomic site where the Vesicular is located?
Base of the Lung
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What is the cause of Rales?
Fluid
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What is the cause of Rhonchi?
Airways are inflammed
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What is the cause of Friction Rub
Pleural Sac is inflammed and rubbing togeather
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What is the Best position for Mrs. Bayton to effectively assess posterior breath sounds
sitting on bedside leaning over the bedside table
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An effective routine or pattern to follow in asusculatating breath sounds is
Apical to base, comparing right side to left side.
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During auscultation, you would ask Mrs. Bayton to:
breath deeply, mouth open
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The breath sounds with the longest inspiratory phase are
vesicluar
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Bronchial breath sounds are usually:
loud, high pitched and hollow
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While auscultating Mrs. Bayton's chest, you note soft low pitched breath sounds over most of her lungs, These sounds are:
bronchovesicular
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Deep gasping type of respirations associated with acidotic conditions
Kussmaul respirations
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Ability to breath only in a sitting position
Orthopnea
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Temporary Absence of breathing
apnea
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Decreased oxygen concentration of arterial blood
Hypoxemia
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Unimpaired or normal respirations
Eupnea
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Irregular rapid respirations followed by periods of apnea and hyperventilation.
Cheyne-Stokes repirations
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