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Pulmonary Flashcards

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Fine crackles

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Heard during end of inspiration. High-pitched discrete crackling not cleared by cough.

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Medium crackles

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Heard during mid-step of inspiration. Lower, moist, not cleared with cough.

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Course crackles

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Heard during inspiration. loud, bubbly, not cleared with cough.

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Wheezes

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Heard on expiration > inspiration. Musical, high pitched, hissing, squeak. Continuous. In lower airway suggestive of narrowing.

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Stridor

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Upper airway wheeze.

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Rhonchus (Rhonchi)

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Continuous through inspiration and expiration. Loud, low and course. Similar to snore or honk.

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Dullness in lung fields may suggest

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Areas of pneumonia consolidation

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Tympany or precussion in lung fields may suggest

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pneumothorax

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Hyperresonance in lung fields may suggest

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Asthma/Bronchitis/Emphysema

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Tracheal Auscultated sounds

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Harsh, high pitched. Inspiratory=expiratory.

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Bronchial Auscultated sounds

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Heard over large airways. Relatively high pitched. Inspiratory < expiratory.

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Bronchovesicular Auscultated sounds

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Heard mid chest. Medium pitch. Inspiratory=expiratory.

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Vesicular Auscultated sounds

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Heard over healthy lung tissue. Soft. Low pitched. Inspiratory > expiratory.

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Scoliosis

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Lateral curvature of the spine

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Pleural rub

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A dry, rubbing, or grating sound heard on ausciltation, caused by friction between the parietal and visceral pleaurae

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Pulse paradoxus

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Abnormally large drop in systolic BP and pulse amplitude during inspiration.

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Tactile fremitis

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Confers density of lungs

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Bronchophy

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Spoken words louder than normal (confers lung consolidation).

19
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Whispered pectoriloquy

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Whispered words have increased intensity and pitch (confers lung consolidation).

20
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Egophony

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Have pt say “E.” Will change to “A” sound with consolidation.

Physical Diagnosis II (7 decks)

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