Adventitious Sounds: Wheezes PRETEST 1. Describe the mechanism that produces wheezing? 2. What conditions are associated with wheezes? 3. Describe the following types of wheezes: expiratory polyphonic, fixed monophonic, sequential…
Adventitious Sounds: Crackles PRETEST 1. What causes crackles? 2. What is the difference between coarse and fine crackles? 3. Describe the characteristics of late inspiratory crackles. 4. Describe the characteristics…
Absent and Diminished Breath Sounds PRETEST 1. Which conditions are associated with diminished or absent breath sounds? 2. How does each of these conditions cause diminished or absent breath sounds?…
Abnormal Voice Sounds PRETEST How are normal voice sounds produced? Name the three voice sounds. How do voice sounds change over areas of dense, airless lung tissue? Which specific words…
Bronchial Breath Sounds PRETEST 1. What happens to normal breath sounds when lung density increases? 2. What are bronchial breath sounds? 3. How does consolidation affect breath sounds? 4. How…
The Respiratory System and Auscultation PRETEST 1. What is the primary function of the respiratory system? 2. Where are the apex and base of the lung located? 3. Describe the…
Breath Sounds Heard in Healthy Individuals PRETEST 1. What are normal breath sounds? 2. How do normal breath sounds originate? 3. What affects the normal breath sound characteristics? 4. What…
Introduction to Breath Sounds PRETEST 1. How are breath sounds produced? 2. Name the three different airflow patterns. 3. What are egophony, bronchophony, and whispered pectoriloquy? 4. What are adventitious…
Other Auscultatory Sounds PRETEST 1. What are the four types of prosthetic valves? 2. What are the similarities and differences of the sounds produced by the four types of aortic…
Systolic Murmurs PRETEST 1. How is the sound of a systolic murmur produced? 2. List the murmurs associated with right ventricular outflow obstruction. 3. List the murmurs associated with left…
