Week 1

Question 1

adventitious is also called

Answer 1

added breath

Question 2

crackles

Answer 2

intermittent, non-musical and brief—like dots in time

Question 3

when are crackles heard

Answer 3

COPD, pneumonia, heart failure

heard more with inspiration, but both

Question 4

types of crackles

Answer 4

fine

course

Question 5

fine crackles

Answer 5

brief, discontinuous, popping lung sounds that are high-pitched (rubbing strands of hair together close to your ear)

Question 6

course crackles

Answer 6

loud and low-pitched

Question 7

wheeze

Answer 7

Relatively high-pitched and have a hissing or shrill quality and often suggest asthma

Question 8

what are wheezes caused by

Answer 8

narrowing of airways

Question 9

rhonchi

Answer 9

Low-pitched, snoring quality, and arise from secretions in large airways, as seen in bronchitis

Question 10

what are rhonchi due to

Answer 10

airway secetion

Question 11

stridor

Answer 11

Inspiratory musical sound, loudest over trachea

Question 12

what is does stridor suggests

Answer 12

obstructed trachea or larynx

Question 13

pleural rub

Answer 13

Due to inflammation of the pleura, as in acute dry pleurisy, the two inflamed and roughened surfaces of the pleura rub against each other

Question 14

suggested conditions of crackles

Answer 14

Pneumonia

Early CHF

Fibrosis

Question 15

suggested conditions of wheezes

Answer 15

Asthma

Bronchitis

COPD

Question 16

suggested conditions of rhonchi

Answer 16

secretions in large airways

Question 17

if you detect crackles, wheezing or rhonchi what do you ask the patient to do?

Answer 17

cough, if the sounds disappear think bronchitis