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25 Cards in this Set
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Wheeze
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-suggests partial airway obstruction from secretions, tissue inflammation, or foreign body
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Mucoid sputum
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-translucent, white, or gray
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Purulent Sputum
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-yellow or green
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Foul smelling sputum
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-anaerobic lung abscess
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Tenacious sputum
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-cystic fibrosis
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Stridor
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-high pitched wheeze
-sign of airway obstruction in larynx or trachea |
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Lateral displacement of trachea
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-pneumothorax
-pleural effusion -atelectasis |
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Decrease in chest expansion
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-chronic fibrosis
-pleural effusion -lobar pneumonia |
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Decreased fremitus
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-thick chest wall
-obstructed bronchus -COPD -pleural effusion |
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Increased fremitus
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-pneumonia
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Flatness
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-large pleural effusion
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Dullness
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-lobar pneumonia
-atelectasis -pleural effusion |
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Resonance
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-simple chronic bronchitis
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Hyperresonance
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-COPD
-Pneumothorax -asthma |
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Tympany
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-large pneumothorax
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Vesicular
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-soft, low
-inspiratory sounds longer than expiratory |
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Broncho-vesicular
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-lengths equal
-intermediate pitch -between scapula |
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Bronchial
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-expiratory longer
-loud, high -over manubrium -gap |
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Tracheal
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-lengths equal
-high -over trachea |
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Crackles
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-abnormal lung tissue
-bronchitis |
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Egophony
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-lobar consolidation
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Rhonchi
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-suggest secretions in the larger airways
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Tracheobronchitis
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-burning
-cough |
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Laryngitis
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-dry cough w/ various amt of sputum
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Flail Chest
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-if multiple ribs are fractured
-descent of the diaphragm decreases the pressure -injured area may cave inward |
