NUR 2180 Physical Assessment Quiz Respiratory Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) Where can bronchial sounds be heard? - Correct Answers ✅Over the trachea. It is loud, harsh, and usually upon expiration What type of adventitious sound is created by narrowing of the bronchi? - Correct Answers ✅Wheezes ·What does a rhonchi finding represent? - Correct Answers ✅There is inflammation in the lung due to an obstruction or other cause. Common in patients with COPD, bronchitis, pneumonia or cystic fibrosis What is tactile fremitus? - Correct Answers ✅palpable vibrations transmitted through the bronchopulmonary tree to the chest wall as the patient is speaking What does tactile fremitus assess - Correct Answers ✅The amount of air in the lungs, lung tissue density and fluid consolidation in the lungs.How to perform tactile fremitus - Correct Answers ✅Palpate chest while PT says "ninety nine" 1 / 2
NUR 2180 Physical Assessment Quiz Respiratory Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) Know why side-to-side pattern is used during a respiratory assessment - Correct Answers ✅Assesses for symmetry among the lung fields crackles - Correct Answers ✅rice Krispy sound or pop rocks. Course or fine and it is from increased fluid in the lungs.stridor - Correct Answers ✅high pitched crowing noise from upper airway obstruction or an allergic reaction wheeze - Correct Answers ✅high pitched musical sound seen with an asthma attack rhonchi - Correct Answers ✅Coarse, low-pitched breath sounds heard in patients with chronic mucus in the upper airways. Snore like Places to assess lung sounds - Correct Answers ✅6-8 spots on front, 4 spots in the side, 8-10 on back Tracheal breath sounds - Correct Answers ✅Breath sounds heard by placing the stethoscope diaphragm over the trachea or sternum; also called bronchial breath sounds
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