Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Percussion of Lungs 5
- Percussion
- Resonant- air filled cavities
- Dull- tissue filled caity
- Technique of percussion
- 5 different locations
- Comparison
- Posterior lung field
- Order of percussion
- Width of Kroening space 6-7cm
- Narrow Kroening space Tuberculosis/apex lung carcinoma
- Wider Kroening space pulmonary emphysema, bronchial asthma
- Normal lower lung borders
- Right mid clavicular- 5th intercostal
- Left mid clavicular-3rd intercostal
- Inferior position of bases of lungs in asthma and emphysema
- Analysis of sound
- Most resonant below clavicles anteriorlyand scapulae poseteriorly, least resonantover scapulae
- Reduction of resonance
- Consolidation- lobarpneumonia
- Pleural effusion
- Atelectasy
- Typmanic sound
- Pneumothorax
- Over upper border ofpleural effusion
- Hyperresonance
- Pulmonary emphysema
- Bronchial asthma