6: Coughing

Question 1

What do bronchial sounds sound like?

Answer 1

Blowing

Question 2

What do vesicular sounds sound like?

Answer 2

Low-pitched rustling

Question 3

Ddx acute coughing?

Answer 3

KC, airway irritation, bronchopneumonia e.g. aspiration, allergy, pulmonary oedema or haemorrhage, airway trauma

Question 4

Ddx chronic coughing?

Answer 4

Laryngeal disease, tracheal collapse, chronic bronchial disease, heart failure, parasites, allergic lung disease, bronchiectasis, FB, neoplasia, abscess, granulomas