Zusammenfassung der Ressource
THORAX
AND
LUNGS
- RESPIRATION PATTERNS
- NORMAL
- 14-20/MIN AND
REGULAR
- NORMAL BREATHING
PATTERN
- TACHYPNEA
- 24/MIN AND
SHALLOW
- MAY BE A NORMAL RESPONSE TO FEVER, EXERCISE
AND ANXIETY
- BRADYPNEA
- <10/MIN AND REGULAR
- MAY BE REGULAR IN WELL CONDITIONED ATHLETES.
- CAN OCCUR IN MEDICATION INDUCED DEPRESSION OF THE
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
- HYPERVENTILATION
- INCREASED RATE AND DEPTH
- USUALLY OCCURS IN EXTREME EXERCISE,
FEAR OR ANXIETY
- HYPOVENTILATION
- DECREASED RATE AND DEPTH
IRREGULAR PATTERN
- USUALLY ASSOCIATED
W/ OVERDOSE OF
NARCOTICS AND
ANETHETICS
- CHEYNE-STOKES
RESPIRATION
- REGULAR PATTERN CHARACTERIZED BY
ALTERNATING PERIODS OF DEEP, RAPID
BREATHING FOLLOWED BY PERIODS OF APNEA
- MAY RESULT FROM SEVERE CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, DRUG OVERDOSE INCREASED
INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE OR RENAL FAILURE. MAY BE NOTED IN ELDERLY PERSON DURING
SLEEP
- BIOT'S
RESPIRATION
- IRREGULAR PATTERN CHARACTERIZED BY VARYING DEPTH RATE
OF RESPIRATION FOLLOWED BY PERIODS OF APNEA
- MAY BE SEEN W/ MENINGITIS OR SEVERE BRAIN
DAMMAGE
- FINDINGS
- NORMAL
- PINK
- INTERCOSTAL SPACE SHOULD BE EVEN AND RELAXED
- CHEST SYMMETRY IS
EQUAL
- RESPIRATION PATTERNS IS EVEN WITH 14-20 MIN
UNLABORED
- ANTERIOR & POSTERIOR TO LATERAL DIAMETER IS 1:2
RATIO
- SHAPE & POSITION IS LEVEL W/
RIBS
- CHEST EXPANSION IS 3 INCHES W/ DEEP INSPIRATION
- POSITION OF TRACHEA IS IN
MIDLINE
- DEVIATION FROM
NORMAL
- PALLOR,
CYANOSIS
- BULGING AND
RETRACTING
- UNEQUAL
- UNEVEN, LABORED, <12/MIN OR >20/MIN, SHALLOW AND
DEEP
- >1:2 RATIO OR <1:2
- SHAPE & POSITION IS DEPRESSED OR
PROJECTING
- POSITION OF TRACHEA IS DEVIATED TO ONE
SIDE
- LESS THAN 3 INCHES W/ DEEP INSPIRATION & DECREASED CHEST
EXCURSION
- ALTERED VOICE SOUND OVER LUNGS
PERIPHERY
- BRONCHOPHONY
- SOUND MUFFLED
- SOUND LOUD AND CLEAR OVER CONSOLIDATION FROM
PNEUMONIA ATELECTASIS OR TUMOR
- WHISPERED
PECTORILOQUY
- SOUND MUFFLED
- SOUND LOUD AND CLEAR OVER AREAS OF CONSOLIDATION
- EGOPHONY
- SOUND LIKE MUFFLED "EE"
- SOUND LIKE "AY" OVER ARES CONSOLIDATION OR
COMPRESSION
- TECHNIQUE
- AUSCULTATION
- INSPECTION
- PALPATION
- PERCUSSION
- EQUIPMENTS
- STETHOSCOPE
- SKIN MARKER
- CENTIMETER RULER