Breath sounds

Question 1

loud, high pitched, over trachea with equal inspiration and expiration

Answer 1

Trachea breath sounds

Question 2

softer version of the normal breath sound

Answer 2

Diminished breath sound

Question 3

no sound heard

Answer 3

absent breath sound

Question 4

discontinuous adventitious popping lung sounds heard most often on inspiration (caused by high fluid)

Answer 4

Crackles

Question 5

Abnormal, fine, and discontinuous adventitious lung sounds heard at the later part of inhalation over the dependent region of the lung

Answer 5

late inspiratory crackles

Question 6

continuous, adventitious lung sounds heard most often on exhalation, Musical sounds and means intrathoracic airway obstruction.

Answer 6

Wheezes

Question 7

Monophonic, high pitched wheeze heard over upper airway in patients with croup or epiglottis

Answer 7

stridor

Question 8

suggest shallow breathing or hyperinflation of the lung as with emphysema for which breath sound

Answer 8

Diminished breath sounds

Question 9

suggest an increase in lung density as occurs with pneumonia

Answer 9

bronchial breath sounds

Question 10

produced by the sudden opening of collapsed airways or with movement of excessive airways secretions.

Answer 10

Crackles

Question 11

produced by vibration of the narrowed airway walls as air flows through at high speeds

Answer 11

Wheezes

Question 12

produced by vibration of tissues in the upper airway with labored breathing

Answer 12

Stridor

Question 13

When a patient whispers E and the sound sounds like an A they have a

Answer 13

egophany A (Abnormal)

Question 14

When a patient whishpers 99 and you hear it loud and clear in lungs

Answer 14

Abnormal Whispered pectoriloquy

Question 15

When a patient whispers 99 and you hear a muffled sound they have

Answer 15

Whispered pectoriloquy normal

Question 16

bronchial breath sounds heard over periphery or in bases of the lungs suggest

Answer 16

consolidation of lung tissue

Question 17

When a patient says E and the sound sounds like an E

Answer 17

egophany E (Normal)

Question 18

Crackles are common with what lung condition

Answer 18

Congestive Heart failure

Question 19

deeper rumbling sounds that are more pronounced on expiration

Answer 19

Rhonchus or Rhonchi

Question 20

What 4 lung conditions causes early inspiratory crackles?

Answer 20

1.COPD
2.chronic bronchitis
3. emphysema
4. severe airway obstruction

Question 21

What would a pleural rub sound indicate?

Answer 21

inflamed pleural tissue around lungs

Question 22

When would we hear bronchophony?

Answer 22

increase in lung tissue density (pneumonia)