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| "When fluid or solid tissue replaces air-containing lung or occupies pleural space, you go from ______________ percussion sound to ______________percussion sound" |
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| What type of percussion sound will be produced in a patient with COPD? |
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| What would dullness of the right middle lobe of the liver typically indicate? |
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| What condition would cause the upper border of the liver to be found more inferiorly than normal and a lower level of diaphragmaitc dullness posteriorly? |
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| What type of breathsounds will be heard over the large airways? |
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| Would forced expiratory time be increased or decreased in a patient with an obstructive pulmonary disease? |
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| What condition would be associated with a forced expiration time of 6 seconds or more? |
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| Obstructive Pulmonary Disease |
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| An increase in local pain as a result of squeezing the chest by putting one hand on the sternum and the other on the thoracic spine can help you to distinguish what from what? |
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| Soft- tissue injury of the thorax from a fractured rib |
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| "Increased AP Diameter of the chest, Decreased expansion, Hyperressonant lungs, Delayed expiratory phase, Wheezes, Decreased Fremitus are all symptoms that would suggest to you that the patient is suffereing from what condition?" |
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| Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease |
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| Should the normal thorax of an adult be wider than it is deep or deeper than it is wide? |
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| What is another term for Funnel Chest? |
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| What deformity of the thorax is manifested as a depression in the lower portion of the sternum? |
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| True or False: Compression of the heart and great vessels is sometimes associated with Pectus Excavatum and can cause murmurs? |
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| What thoracic deformity is manifested as an abnormal spinal curvature and vertebral rotation deformity of the chest? |
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| What to thorax deformities increase the AP diameter of the chest? |
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| Barrel Chest and Pigeon Chest |
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| Is barrel chest normal during infancy? |
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| Could COPD be a contributing factor to Barrel Chest? |
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| What thoracic deformity is also known as Pectus Carinatum? |
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| What thoracic deformity causes the Sternum to be deplaced anteriorly? |
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| "Multiple rib fractures may result in paradoxical movements of the thorax, this woluld be associated with what thoracic abnormality?" |
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| "What thoracic abnormality causes the descent of the diaphragm to decrease intrathoracic pressure, on insipration the injured area caves inward, and on expiration the injured area moves outward?" |
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| What deformity of the Thorax (Becuase of it is associated with distortion of the underlying lungs) can cause lung findings to be lost or very difficult to interperate? |
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| "What process is characterized by alveoli filling with fluid, red cells, and white cells many times associated with Lobar Pneumonia?" |
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| What are the predominate breath sounds in a normal air filled lung? |
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| What are the breath sounds found in an airless lung sucha as lobar pneumonia? |
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| Bronchial or Bronchovesicular |
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| What is is called when you auscultate a patient and have them say E but it is heard as A? |
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| When spoken words are heard louder and clearer than normal |
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| What is it called when whispered sounds are heard louder and clearer? |
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| Is tactile fremitus in a lung with lobar pneumonia decreased or increased? |
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| What two conditions are associated with Late Inspiratory Crackles of the lungs? |
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| Intersstitial Lung Disease & Early Congestive Heart Failure |
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| Would you normally hear early or late inspiratory crackles associated with Chronic Bronchitis and Asthma? |
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| What is explained as air flowing rapidly through bronchi that are narrowed? |
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| "True or False: All of the following are symptoms of wheezes, Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis, COPD, Congestive Heart Failure, & Lobar Pneumonia?" |
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| False: Lobar Pneumonia is not usually associated with Wheezing |
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| "What condition is associated with Bronchophony, Egophony, and Pectgoriloquy?" |
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| What are Rhonchi assoicated wtih? |
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| Secretions in larger airways |
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| What does a persistent localized wheeze suggest? |
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| Partial Obsrucction of a bronchus as by tumor or foreign body |
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| What is a wheeze that is entirely or predominately inspiratory? |
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| True or False: Pleural rubs are caused by two pleural surfaces grating against each other as they are momentarily delayed by decreased friction? |
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| False: Decreased by increased friction (Not fair I know but then again it is PD) |
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| What is another name for a mediastinal crunch? |
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| What is classified as a sereies of precordial crackles synchronous with the heart beat? |
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| What is usually caused by Pneumomedistinum or mediastinal empysema? |
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| True or False: Abnormalities deep in the chest usually produce more signs than superficial ones? |
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| False: May cause no signs at all compared to superficial abnormalities |
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| What type of percussion note is heard in Chronic Bronchitis and Left sided heart failure? |
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| What type of percussion note is heard with Pleural Effusion? |
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| What type of percussion note is heard in Pneumothorax and Asthma? |
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| In what condition would you hear coarse crackles in early inspiration? |
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| In what condition would you hear coarse crackles in late inspiration? |
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| Early Left sided heart failure |
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| What condition would cause tactile fremitus and transmitted voice sounds to be absent? |
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| Atelectasis (Lobar Obstruction) or Pelural Effusion or possible Pneumothorax |
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| What chest disorder would cause the trachea to be shifted toward the involved side? |
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| What two conditions would cause the trachea to be shifted toward the opposite side? |
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| Pleural Effusion and Pneumothorax |
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