Breath Sounds
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When the sound intensity is reduced or decreased
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What is Diminished Breath Sounds?
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Shallow or Slow Breathing Patterns
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With diminished breath sounds, sound intensity is reduced with what type of breathing patterns?
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Hyperinflated, poor air movement, fluid, mucus, COPD, Obesity
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What can cause Diminished Breath Sounds?
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High velocity air flows that pass through a narrowed airway
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What causes Wheezes and Stridor?
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Bronchospasm, Mucosal Edema, Inflammation, Tumors and Foreign Bodies
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What can cause the airway diametere to be reduced?
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on Exhalation
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When will Wheezing be heard?
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Bronchitis and CHF
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Besides Asthma, what other conditions have polyphonic wheezing?
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Extra or additional sounds that are heard over normal breath sounds
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What is an Adventitious Lung Sound?
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Adventitious
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What kind of Lung Sound is Stridor?
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Trachealmalacia
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What is the most common cause of Chronic Stridor?
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Croup
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What is the most common cause of Acute Stridor
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During Inhalation
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When is Stridor usually heard?
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Rapid airflow through an obstructed Upper Airway
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What is Stridor?
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Croup, Epiglottitis, Postextubation
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What are some causes of Stridor?
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The small airways and alveoli are popped open as airflow passes through causing the movement of excessive secretions or fluid in the airway
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What are Crackles?
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Chronic Bronchitis, Emphysema, Asthma and it usually indicates a severe airway obstruction
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What do Early Inspiratory Crackles Indicate?
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Atelectasis, Pneumonia, Pulmonary Edema and Pulmonary Fibrosis
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Fine Late Crackles are most common in patients with reduced Lung Volumes such as . . .
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Excess Airway secrections moving through the airway
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What is the definition of Coarse Crackles?
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Severe Pneumonia and Bronchitis
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What are causes of Coarse Crackles?
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Wax paper being crumpled up or hair being rubbed by your ear
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What does Coarse Crackles sound like?
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Sudden opening of the peripheral airways
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What is the definition of Fine Crackles?
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Atelectasis, Fibrosis, Pulmonary Edema
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What are causes of Fine Crackles?
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Velcrow being Torn off
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What does Fine Crackles sound like?
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When the pleural surfaces become inflammed and the roughened edges rub together during breathing
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What is a Pleural Friction Rub?
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On Inspiration
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When is a Pleural Friction Rub heard?
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Creaking or a Grating sound
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What does a Pleural Friction Rub sound like?
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Nor it is not
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Is a Pleural Friction Rub affected by coughing?
