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| duration, morning or night,productive or non productive, bovine? |
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| colour, volume, blood, black, green or yellow |
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| streaking->massive blood in sputum. Infections TB, COPD, pulmonary infarction, cancer |
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| high pitch whislteling sound caused by air way narrowing. inspiratory (upper) or expiratory (lower) |
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| pleuritic, sharp, localised, and worse with breathing or coughing |
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| General inspecton of respiratory disease |
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| Dyspnoea, mental alertness, cyanosis, hyperinflation, accessory muscle use, asterixis, prominent neck veins |
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| Abscess, Bronchiectasis, Cystic fibrosis/Cancer, suppurative lung disease, Empymea, pulmonary fibrosis |
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| atelectasis, pneumothrorax, tension pneumothorax. |
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| longer inspiration c.f expiration, no pause between two sound |
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| equal inspiration and expiratoin, gap between the two |
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| decreased unilteraly in pneumonia and collapsed lungs, bilaterally in COPD restrictive lung disease |
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| normal sound felt clearly over lung, decreased in consolidation, lost all together with pleural fluid |
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| normal resonant, hyperresonant in pneumothorax, dull - pneumonia, collapse of airway, stony dull - pleural effusion |
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| opening of airways previously collapsed. Early inspiratory - diffuse airflow limitation, late inspiratory - pulmonary oedema, fibrosis, bronchiectasis |
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| normal - low pitch booming. consolidation - higher pitch bleatin quality, whispered words are clear |
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