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Auscultation: normal (2 types)
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Vesicular: soft low pitched heard upon inspiration and first 1/3 of expiration, no pauses
Bronchial: harsher, higher pitched, exp last longer than insp sounds, slight pause |
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Auscultation: Adventitious
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Crackles/rales: discontinuous sounds, intermittent, brief, and non musical; CHF
Wheezes/rhonchi: cont. sounds musical wheeze: high pitched, asthma and COPD rhonchi: lower pitched; secretions in large airways |
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Asthma: lab values & PE
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DECR: FEV1, FEV1:FVC, PEFR, FEF, Normal or decr VC; INCR RV
PE: wheezes uses of acc muscles |
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COPD: values & PE
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similar to asthma values but NORMAL or DEC VC, normal or INCR RV
PE: wheezes, rhonchi, barrel chest, acc muscles, cyanosis |
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Why & when to use peak flow meters
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WHY? det severity of disease, det when to seek medical attn, monitor disease progression, det triggers in asthma
WHEN? before fast acting meds; every morning and night, when symptomatic |
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Peak flow meter zones
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percentage of personal best!
Green >80% -- no addt treatment if asymptomatic Yellow 50-80% -- treat reqd Red <50% -- seek med attn |
