Week 12 NUR 203 Pulmonary Assessment

Another name for crackles.

• Popping
• Rales
• Snoring
• Friction

When are fine crackles heard best?

• At the end of inspiration
• At the beginning of inspiration
• At the end of expiration
• During inspiration and expiration

Intermittent rattling, crackling, popping, or bubbling sound

• Pleural friction rub
• Wheeze
• Crackles
• Stridor

low-pitched, coarse grating tone like rubbing two pieces of leather together

• Rhonchi
• Pleural friction rub
• Crackle
• Wheeze

You may hear this with patients that have pneumonia, chronic pulmonary disease, or heart failure.

• Stridor
• Pleural friction rub
• Crackles
• Wheeze

Whistling, high-pitched musical sounds

• Rhonchi
• Crackles
• Vesicular
• Wheeze

Sound that is made from air passing through narrowed airway passages.

• Bronchovesicular
• Tracheal
• Wheeze
• Stridor

Continuous, low-pitched, snoring-type sound.

• Rhonchi
• Wheeze
• Bronchial
• Stridor

Can hear these sounds for patients that have asthma or bronchitis.

• Bronchial
• Tracheal
• Crackles
• Wheeze

Heard on inspiration and expiration.

• Crackles
• Rhonchi
• Stridor
• Pleural friction rub