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18 Cards in this Set

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Normal Lungs
(Percussion)
(Trachea)
(Tactile Fremitus)
Percussion: Resonant

Trachea: Midline

Tactile Fremitus: Normal
Chronic Bronchitis
(Percussion)
(Trachea)
(Tactile Fremitus)
Percussion: Resonant

Trachea: Midline

Tactile Fremitus: Normal
Left Sided Heart Failure
(Percussion)
(Trachea)
(Tactile Fremitus)
Percussion: Resonant

Trachea: Midline

Tactile Fremitus: Normal
Consolidation
(Percussion)
(Trachea)
(Tactile Fremitus)
Percussion:DULL over the airless area

Trachea: Midline

Tactile Fremitus: Increased over the involved area, with bronchophony, egophany, and whisphered pectoriloquy
Atelectasis
(Percussion)
(Trachea)
(Tactile Fremitus)
Percussion: DULL over the airless area

Trachea: may be shifted toward the INVOLVED SIDE

Tactile Fremitus: Usually absent when the bronchial plug persists.

In exceptions (right upper lobe atelectasis) may be increased.
Pleural Effusion
(Percussion)
(Trachea)
(Tactile Fremitus)
Percussion: DULL to FLAT over the fluid

Trachea: Shifted toward the OPPOSITE side in a large effusion

Tactile Fremitus: Decreased to absent, but may be increased toward the top of a large effusion
Pneumothorax
(Percussion)
(Trachea)
(Tactile Fremitus)
Percussion: HYPERRESONANT or TYMPANITIC over the pleural air

Trachea: Shifted toward the OPPOSITE side, if much air

Tactile Fremitus: Decreased to absent over the pleural area
COPD
(Percussion)
(Trachea)
(Tactile Fremitus)
Percussion: diffusely HYPERRESONANT

Trachea: Midline

Tactile Fremitus: Decreased
Asthma
(Percussion)
(Trachea)
(Tactile Fremitus)
Percussion: RESONANT to diffusely HYPERRESONANT

Trachea: Midline

Tactile Fremitus: Decreased
Pleural Effusion
(Breath Sounds)
(Adventitious Sounds)
Breath Sounds: Decreased to absent, but bronchial breath sounds may be heard near top of large effusion

Adventitious Sounds: None, except a possible pleural rub
Pneumothorax
(Breath Sounds)
(Adventitious Sounds)
Breath Sounds: Decreased to absent over the pleural air

Adventitious Sounds: None, except a possible pleural rub
COPD
(Breath Sounds)
(Adventitious Sounds)
Breath Sounds: Decreased to absent

Adventitious Sounds: None, or the crackles, wheezes, and ronchi of associated chronic bronchitis
Asthma
(Breath Sounds)
(Adventitious Sounds)
Breath Sounds: Often obscured by wheezes

Adventitious Sounds: Wheezes, possibly crackles
Normal Lungs
(Breath Sounds)
(Adventitious Sounds)
Breath Sounds: Vesicular, except perhaps bronchovesicular over the large bronchi and bronchial over the trachea

Adventitious Sounds: None, except perhaps a few transient inspiratory crackles at the bases of the lungs
Chronic Bronchitis
(Breath Sounds)
(Adventitious Sounds)
Breath Sounds: Vesicular (normal)

Adventitious Sounds: None; or scattered coarse crackles in early inspiration and perhaps expiration; or wheezes or rhonchi
Left-Sided Heart Failure
(Breath Sounds)
(Adventitious Sounds)
Breath Sounds: Vesicular

Adventitious Sounds: Late inspiratory crackles in the dependent portions of the lungs; possibly wheezes
Consolidation
(Breath Sounds)
(Adventitious Sounds)
Breath Sounds: Bronchial over the involved area

Adventitious Sounds: Later inspiratory crackles over the involved area
Atelectasis
(Breath Sounds)
(Adventitious Sounds)
Breath Sounds: Usually absent when bronchial plug persists. Exceptions include right upper lobe atelectasis, where adjacent tracheal sounds may be transmitted.

Adventitious Sounds: None