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Breath Sounds/Patterns

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Vesicular BS   Normal; low pitch soft sounds, "whispering, rustling of leaves"; inspiration longer than expiration, heard over lung periphery  
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Bronchial BS   Normal; loud, high pitch, hollowing sounding; Expiration longer than inspiration w/ short pause; heard over upper sternum (monubrium) bc of the right/left main stem  
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Bronchovesicular BS   Muted sound, with pause between inspiration and expiration, both are roughly the same length; heard over sternum between scapulae and rt. apex  
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Tracheal BS   Hard, high pitch sounds; expiration longer than inspiration  
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Harsh BS   Normal breath sounds louder than normal  
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Diminished BS   Normal breath sounds quieter than normal  
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Abnormal BS   Hearing 'normal' breath sounds in areas, in which, are not appropriate.  
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Adventitious BS   Crackles, wheezes, rhonchi, pleural rub, stridor  
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Continuous BS   wheezes, rhonchi, stridor  
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Discontinuous BS   Crackles  
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Wheezes   High pitched, can either be monophonic (tumor, foreign object) or polyphonic (asthma)  
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Rhonchi   Low pitched, sounds like snoring, usually because of secretions  
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Stridor   heard over trachea durning inspiration, obstruction of trachea/larynx  
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Crackles   Low pitched, inspiration and expiration, coarse crackles dealing with secretions in larger airways, fine crackles = atelectasis, fibrosis, pulmonary edema  
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Kussmal's Breathing   Deep and rapid; caused by ketoacidosis, diabetic coma  
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Biot's Breathing   Very irregular breathing with periods of apnea; caused be a rise in intercranial pressure  
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Cheyne-Stoke's Breathing   Gradual increase, gradual decrease followed with apnea; caused by CNS depression, CHF  
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Apneustic Breathing   Prolonged inspiration, regular expiration; caused by brain injury  
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Paradoxical Breathing   Chest depresses on inspiration, expiration chest puffs; caused by chest injury  
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Asthmatic Breathing   Prolonged expiration, regular inspiration  
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Tactile Fremitus; increased   Something inside the lung; secretions, tumor, pneumonia,  
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Tactile Fremitus; decreased   Something outside the lung; pnuemothorax, pleural effusion  
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