pulmonary

Question 1

tactile fremitus

Answer 1

vibration felt in chest wall when pt speaks. increased density (fat/air/fluid decrease). have pt say 99

Question 2

percussion sounds-flat

Answer 2

high pitched, dense mass

Question 3

percussion sounds- dull

Answer 3

solid organ

Question 4

percussion sounds- resonant

Answer 4

high amp, low pitched sound- air tissue (lung)

Question 5

percussion sounds- tympanic

Answer 5

hollow, air filled structure (stomach)

Question 6

percussion sounds- hyperresonnant

Answer 6

low pitch, hollow- emph. lung

Question 7

percussion sounds: normal heart and lung

Answer 7

dull heart, resonant lung

Question 8

4 normal breath sounds

Answer 8

tracheal, brachia, vesicular, bronchovesicular

Question 9

adventitious breath sounds

Answer 9

abnormal-rales, wheeze, rhonchi, stridor, pleural rub

Question 10

rales

Answer 10

short, discontinuous, heard on insp (opening of collapsed airways),PE, CHF, fibrosis, pneumonia

Question 11

wheeze

Answer 11

contininuse, musical, expiration. CODP, asthma, foreign body/tumor,

Question 12

rhonchi

Answer 12

low pitched, mucus blogs/poor movement of secretions

Question 13

stridor

Answer 13

Hugh pitched, inspiration, upper airway» caused by obstruction

Question 14

pleural rub

Answer 14

grading sound, inspiration/early expiration, pneumonia or pulmonary infarction

Question 15

egophany

Answer 15

E>A, areas of consolidation

Question 16

whispered pectrorilogquy

Answer 16

intensification of word… heard on consolidation

Question 17

bronchophony

Answer 17

99, increased transmission, consolidation