Pulmonary exam Flashcards
1
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Order of lung exam
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- inspection
- palpation
- percussion
- auscultation
2
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Lobes of lung
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- Right: 3 lobes
- Left: 2 lobes
3
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Health hx affecting lungs
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- smoking
- sedentary lifestyle
- age
- environmental exposures
- obesity
- family hx
4
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Inspection
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- breathing pattern
- use of accessory muscles
- color of lips and nails
- pt position - tripod is distress
5
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tactile fremitus
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press both hands on chest while pt says “99”
- assess for fluid
6
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pathological conditions that alter fremitus
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- pleural effusion
- Increased with fremitis: consolidation
- absent/decreased with fremitis: COPD, fibrosis, pneumothroax
7
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purpose of lung palpation
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- investigating for painful areas
- fracture feels like pushing on rice krispies
8
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Purpose of percussion
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- detect pleural sounds
- dull = effusion (fluid in pleural cavity)
9
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Auscultation sounds: vesicular
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- soft, low pitched, heard over most of the lungs
10
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Auscultation sounds: broncho-vesicular
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- intermediated sound and pitch, hear often in 1st and 2nd intercostal space
11
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Auscultation sounds: bronchial
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- loud, high pitched sound over manubrium, if at all
12
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Auscultation sounds: tracheal
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- very loud and heard over trachea in neck
13
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Auscultation sounds: wheezing
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- continuous, high pitched with hissing/shrill quality
- suggests narrowed airways
14
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Auscultation sounds: crackles/rales
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- intermittent, non-musical, brief, not cleared by cough
- fine crackles: sounds like rice krispies
- course crackles: sounds like opening velcro
- suggests CHF, pneumonia, pulmonary fibrosis
15
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Auscultation sounds: Ronchi
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- continuous, low pitched with snoring quality
- suggests secretions in airways
- cleared by coughing
