GROUP 3 Matching
Describe a flat percussion note. |
It is soft, high pitched, and of short duration. |
Difficulty breathing unless lying flat. |
How are normal heart sounds classified? |
Name the 5 percussion tones that are commonly recognized. |
Flat, dull, resonant, hyperressonant, and tympanic. |
Define Decerebrate Posturing. |
Resulting from a painful stimulus of a comatose patient with a low-level brain stem compression. |
Which ribs are called the FLOATING ribs? |
A patient has a breathing rate lower than 12 breaths per min. the term for this is? |
To describe the quality of a cardiac murmur what few words would you use? |
Blowing, rasping, harsh, coarse, grating, whistling, or musical. |
Requires the examiner to place a finger firmly against a body part and strike that finger with a fingertip from the other hand. |
What are the lung sounds assessed by auscultation? |
Vesicular, Bronchovesicular, and Bronchial/tracheal (tubular) |
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