Mod 3 Respiratory

Question 1

How do you landmark the trachea?

Answer 1

Beginning at the cricoid cartilage in the neck and divides into the bronchi just below the sternal angle

Question 2

What does the thoracic cage consist of?

Answer 2

The sternum
12 pairs of ribs
12 thoracic vertebra
Te diaphragm

Question 3

Define true ribs

Answer 3

7 pairs Attaches to the sternum

Question 4

Define false ribs

Answer 4

Ribs 8-10 Articulated with each other by costal cartilage

Question 5

Define floating ribs

Answer 5

11-12th ribs that are much shorter

Question 6

What does the sternum consist of?

Answer 6

Manubriun, body and the cop hood process

Question 7

Define bronchial breath sounds

Answer 7

Normal, high pitched, harsh breath sound that is created from air moving through the trachea

Question 8

Define vesicular sounds

Answer 8

Soft, lower, sounds like a gentle sigh, created When air moves through the smaller airways of the bronchioles and alveoli

Question 9

Define bronchovesicular sounds

Answer 9

Moderate intensity and has moderate pitch blowing sound that is created by moving air through the bronchi

Question 10

Define adventitious breath sounds

Answer 10

When ab normal sounds are produced in the lungs by the collision of moving air with secretions in the tracheobronchial passageways or by the popping open of a previously deflated air way or narrowed airways

Question 11

Define wheezes

Answer 11

A high pitch sound with the musical quality produced by a high velocity flow of air through and narrowed airway and is her during both inspiration and expiration commonly associated with asthma

Question 12

Define crackles

Answer 12

And irregular bubbling noise heard during inspiration fine produced by air entering distal bronchioles or alveoli that contain serious secretions which happens during congestive heart failure or pneumonia

Question 13

Define stridor

Answer 13

A high-pitched crowding sound heard on inspiration common with croup

Question 14

Define rubs

Answer 14

Superficial grading or creaking sound her during inspiration and expiration is not relieved by coughing the rubbing or inflamed plural services caused the sound

Question 15

When are the fingertips best for when palpating?

Answer 15

For fine tactile discrimination as of skin texture swelling pulsation in determining presence of lumps

Question 16

When is the fingers and thumb grasping best used for palpation?

Answer 16

Detecting position, shape and consistency of an organ or a mass

Question 17

When is the back of the hand and fingers best used for palpation?

Answer 17

Temperature

Question 18

When is the base of the finger is best used during palpation?

Answer 18

Vibration

Question 19

When is percussion used?

Answer 19

Identifying the location, size and density of underlying structures