Chest Auscultation FOUR COMPONENTS OF A RESPIRATORY ASSESSMENT
























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Chest Auscultation
FOUR COMPONENTS OF A RESPIRATORY ASSESSMENT ¡ INSPECTION ¡ PALPATION ¡ PERCUSSION ¡ AUSCULTATION
Anterior Chest Landmarks.
ACCORDING TO UNDERLYING LUNGS AND LOBES ¡ RIGHT LUNG ¡ LEFT LUNG ¡ UPPER MIDDLE LOWER ¡ UPPER LOWER ¡ ¡ ¡
INSPECTION ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ Shape Scars Prominent veins Resp rate and rhythm Chest wall movement Intercostal recession Added sounds Cyanosis Sputum
PALPATION ¡ Tenderness ¡ Position ¡ Chest of apex beat wall expansion
Apex beat
Chest Wall Expansion
TRACHEAL POSITION ¡ Central? ¡ Above ¡ ? shift the sternal notch? ? direction
Tracheal Deviation ¡ Towards ¡ Away • Atelectasis • Pneumothorax • Pleural fibrosis • Pleural effusion • Pneumonectomy • Tumors • Lung agenesis/aplasia
Trachea deviated to Right Left lung border
PERCUSSION ¡ compare both sides ¡ start over the clavicles move down anterior chest, ensure to percuss over lateral chest
Percussion Sounds Sound Description Significance Resonant Long, loud, low pitched, hollow Normal Lung sounds Dullness Medium in intensity and pitch, moderate length areas of increased density/decreased air (consolidation, collapse, fibrosis, abscess, neoplasm) Stony dull Thudlike unique for pleural effusion Hyper resonant Very loud, low pitched areas of decreased density-increased air (pneumothorax)
TACTILE FREMITUS ¡ VOCAL FREMITUS – say 99 ¡ INCREASED FREMITUS ¡ DECREASED FREMITUS
Auscultation ¡ BREATH SOUNDS • Normal • Absent • Reduced • Bronchial
Added sounds ¡ Wheeze ¡ Crackles ¡ Rub ¡ Stridor
Vocal resonance • Bronchophony • Whispering pectoriloquy • Egophony
Common Conditions Percussion Breath Sounds Added Sounds Vocal Resonance Consolidation dull Bronchial breathing Crackles (course) Increased Pleural Effusion dull BS Rub? Decreased Pneumothorax Hyperresonant BS Fibrosis Normal Crackles (fine) Pulmonary Oedema Normal Crackles (fine)
Chest sounds ¡ https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v =O 8 OC 7 Eiq. BKQ
References ¡ Breath Sounds Made Incredibly Easy (2005)– Lippincott Williams and Wilkins ¡ Gleadle J(2012)History and Clinical Examination at a Glance Wiley Blackwell ¡ Hogan-Quigley, Palm, Bickley (2012) Bates Nursing Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking Lippincott Williams and Wilkins