wheeze

Question 1

What is a wheeze on auscultation of the chest?

Answer 1

The symptomatic manifestation of any disease process that causes airway obstruction
Musical, high-pitched sound, from the larynx to distal bronchioles during inspiration or expiration.

Question 2

What is the most common cause of a wheeze on chest ausculation?

Answer 2

Asthma.

Question 3

What does wheezing of expiration indicate?

Answer 3

PEF less than 50% compared to normal.

Question 4

What are some examples of conditions that may cause a wheeze?

Answer 4

Resp - RTI (croup, laryngitis, bronchiolitis), obstructive airway disease (Asthma, COPD), airway compression from malignancy, pneumonia
Cardiac - pulmonary edema (CHF)
Neurological -
Other - anaphylaxis, vocal cord dysfunction, goiter causing airway compressions, foreign body inhalation, GERD, obstructive sleep apnoea,