Adventitious or Added Breathe Sounds

Question 1

Discontinuous

Answer 1

Crackles or rales

Question 2

continuous

Answer 2

wheezes and rhonchi

Question 3

Intermittent, nonmusical, and brief

Answer 3

Crackles or rales

Question 4

Like dots in time

Answer 4

crackles or rales

Question 5

soft, high- pitched, very brief (5–10 msec)

Answer 5

fine crackles

Question 6

somewhat louder, lower in pitch, brief (20–30 msec)

Answer 6

coarse crackles

Question 7

≥250 msec, sinusoidal prolonged (but not necessarily persisting throughout the respiratory cycle)

Answer 7

wheezes and rhonchi

Question 8

Like dashes in time

Answer 8

wheezes and rhonchi

Question 9

musical, relatively high pitched (≥400 Hz) with hissing or
shrill quality

Answer 9

wheezes

Question 10

relatively low pitched (≤200 Hz) with snoring quality

Answer 10

rhonchi

Question 11

is a continuous high frequency, high pitched musical sound produced during airflow through a narrowing in the upper respiratory tract

Answer 11

stridor

Question 12

is a discontinuous, low-frequency, grating sound that arises from inflammation and roughening of the visceral pleura as it slides the against the parietal pleura.

Answer 12

pleural friction rub

Question 13

is a series of precordial crackles synchronous with the heartbeat, not with respiration.

Answer 13

mediastinal crunch (Hamman Sign)