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Health Assessment
Health Assessment-Respiratory
Question | Answer |
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Questions to ask: | Have you had any cough, sob, chest pain? do you smoke? any medications? allergies? any concerns today? |
Appearance | how does the pt appear today? how are they sitting? any acute distress noted? |
Check AP | lateral ratio and costal angle. what is normal? |
Note skin color | what is normal? |
Note tracheal position | is it midline? |
Palpate | for crepitus and tenderness; tactile fremitus; symmetrical posterior chest expansion? |
Auscultate | Where are bronchial, bronchovesicular and vesicular breath sounds heard? how many lobes on right? on left? |
Listen: | assess breath sounds, are they clear throughout? what would crackles sound like? rhionchi? wheezes? |
If concerned about pneumonia, what tests could you do to test for consolidation? | Bronchophony, Whispered Pectoriloquy, Egophony |