Health Assessment Chapter 11

Front 1

For routine respiratory exams, what would the nurse inspect generally?

Back 1

Breathing effort, posture, skin, nails, lips

Front 2

For routine respiratory exams, what would the nurse ausculate?

Back 2

Posterior and lateral thorax for breath sounds

Front 3

What would the nurse inspect for shape, symmetry, muscle development, anteroposterior diameter, and coastal angle?

Back 3

Anterior Thorax

Front 4

Acute bronchitis

Back 4

Rhonchi & crackles

Wheezing heard over cough

Front 5

Viral pneumonia

Back 5

clear sputum

nonproductive cough

Front 6

bacterial pneumonia

Back 6

Productive cough

White, yellow, or green sputum

Crackles and wheezes

Front 7

Pleural effusion

Back 7

Fluid

DYSPNEA

Intercostal bulging

Decreased chest wall movement

Front 8

Asthma

Back 8

Prolonged expiration

Occasional inspiratory wheeze

Diminished breath sounds

Front 9

Emphysema

Back 9

Barrel chest

Diminished breasth

Decreased diaphragmatic excursion on percussion

Possible wheezing or crackles

Front 10

Chronic bronchitis

Back 10

auscultation= Rhonchi, cleared by coughing

Sufficient mucus = crackles

Front 11

hemothorax

Back 11

Distant muffled breath sounds

Dullness w percussion

Front 12

ATELECTASIS

Back 12

Diminished breath sounds in affected lobe