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Describe a flat percussion note.
It is soft, high pitched, and of short duration.
Define Paltypnea.
Difficulty breathing unless lying flat.
How are normal heart sounds classified?
As S1 and S2
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?
Ribs 11 and 12.
A patient has a breathing rate lower than 12 breaths per min. the term for this is?
Bradypnea
To describe the quality of a cardiac murmur what few words would you use?
Blowing, rasping, harsh, coarse, grating, whistling, or musical.
Define Percussion.
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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