Lung - Auscultation Flashcards
1
Q
What are the three types of “added sounds”?
A
Crackles, wheezes, and friction rub
2
Q
Breath sounds are loudest and have the longest expiratory phase over which air fields?
A
Large: bronchi and bronchioles
3
Q
Where will you find the bronchia/main bronchi?
A
2nd parasternal/paraspinal ICS
4
Q
Where will you find the bronchovesicular/large bronchioles?
A
3rd - 4th parasternal/paraspinal ICS
5
Q
The terminal airways and alveolar areas are called what?
A
vesicular
6
Q
What sounds encompass most of the air fields?
A
vesicular sounds
7
Q
Lungs are considered to be clear if what?
A
No crackles, wheezes, of friction rubs
Amplitude of breath sounds are not increased, decreased, or absent.
8
Q
If there is increased breath sounds it is known as what?
A
Displaced bronchial breath sounds
9
Q
Crackles aka what?
A
rales
