Respiratory

Question 1

where are crackles located?

Answer 1

in small airways

Question 2

what conditions usually present crackles?

Answer 2

pneumonia, pulmonary fibrosi, COPD, heart failure and infection

Question 3

what do course crackles indicate?

Answer 3

pneumonia

Question 4

what do fne crackles indicate?

Answer 4

pulmonary oedema

Question 5

absence of breath sounds in area of lungs?

Answer 5

inhibits transmission of sounds and function often fund in phneumothorax or pleural effusion

Question 6

a patient presents with a cough for 5 days. Reports pain on right lower aspect of posterior chest. Chest asculation shows reduced airway entry on the right lower lobe and course crackles on inspiration in the right mid zone. what could this be?

Answer 6

Phenumonia

Question 7

high pitch wheeze is usually present in?

Answer 7

Asthma

Question 8

a patient presents with history of asthma. He is struggling to breath and has a wheeze on inspiration and experation. what could this be?

Answer 8

although a wheeze on both inspiration and experation suggests secretions or aiwrway upper obstruction. This history suggests he is suffering exacerbation of asthma.