NUR 1021C Chapter Notes - Chapter Lab Test 2: Pectus Carinatum, Pectus Excavatum, Thoracic Vertebrae
10 Feb 2020
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"gentle sighing" sounds created by air moving through smaller airways. Moderate intensity and moderate pitched "blowing" sounds created by air moving. Over peripheral lung; best heard at the base of lungs. Best heard on inspiration, which is 2. 5 times longer than the expiratory phase. Between the scapulae and lateral to the sternum at the first and (5:2 ratio) Bronchial (tubular) through larger airway second intercostal (bronchi) spaces. High-pitched, loud, "harsh" sounds created by air moving through the trachea. Anteriorly over the trachea; not normally heard over lung tissue. Louder than vesicular sounds; have a short inspiratory phase and long expiratory phase (1:2 ratio: adventitious breath sounds (table 30-8) Continuous, low pitched, coarse, gurgling, harsh, louder sounds with a moaning or. Gurgles (rhonchi) snoring quality; best heard on expiration but as a result of can be heard on both inspiration and secretions, swelling, or expiration tumors.
