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Explain wheezing -High pitched, sounds like whistling
Where do you hear Erb's -Left of the sternal border, 3rd intercostal space
How do you examine -Place your hands on patients back and your thumbs should
posterior chest expansion move outwards apart evenly
When would you expect to hear S4 -Abnormal sounds, heard diastole when ventricles are resistant to filling
sounds
When would you expect to hear S3 -Abnormal sounds like quivering (light swishing) heard ventricular diastole
sounds
What side is the heart on -Left
How would you describe a pulse -Strong and regular
Where is the apical pulse -5th intercostal space midclavicular on left side, listen for 1 full minute
-Have patient say "99" and you should feel a vibration.
-If there is no sound, you may be on bone, there may be a
How would you assess tactile
blockage, or a mass is present.
fremitus
-There may be an increase in lung density
-Left between 4th and 5th intercostal space on the sternal border.
Tricuspid valve
-In taller patients go with the 5th intercostal space
-soft, low-pitched sounds
Describe vesicular breath sounds -auscultated over the lungs periphery
-inspiration is longer, louder, and higher-pitched than expiration
-bubbling, crackling, popping
-low-to-high pitched, discontinuous sounds
-auscultated during inspiration
Describe crackles
-occurs in small air passages, alveoli, bronchioles, bronchi, and trachea
-sounds are made as air passes through wet secretions
-Sounds like air moving through fluid
-Abnormality,
What is sprungcohony -When your feel a negative tactile fremitus, suspect increased lung density
-The sound vibrates, and is found on palpation
-Left 5th intercostal space, midclavicular line
Where do you listen to the mitral
valve -Same as apical
Where is the pulmonic valve -Left 2nd intercostal space
Subjective question of the -Have you noticed any swelling in your ams or legs
peripheral vascular system
, Describe bronchial breath sounds -Loud, sounds like air moving through a big tube (trachea)
Where is the apex of the heart -5th and 6th intercostal space on the left side
What is forthopia -Can't breathe lying down, may use more pillows when sleeping
Where is the dorsalis pedis pulse -Palpate between the second and first toe, right between the two on the
tendon
Descriptor that identifies male -Epispadias
urethral
meatus positioned on the dorsal
aspect of the penis
What would you expect if your -Paroxysmelnocturnal
client tells you they sleep with
2-3 pillows, and often awake
during the night because they
cannot breathe
What location would you -4th intercostal space on the left side
auscultate for a tricuspid murmur
What location would you hear and -5th intercostal space, left midclavicular line
palpate the apical heart
beat/impulse
When the angle if attachment is -Clubbing
greater than 180 degrees