Notez On Nursing....

Crackles
Characteristics:
popping,crackling,bubbling, moist sound on insporation

LUNG PROBLEM:
pneumoina,pulmonary edema, pulmonary fibrosis

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Rhonchi
Characteristics:
rumbling sound on expiration

LUNG PROBLEM:
pneumonia,emphysema,bronchitis,
bronchiectasis

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Wheezes
Characteristics:
high-pitched musical sound during both inspiration ans expiration (lounder)

LUNG PROBLEM:
emphysema,asthma,
foreign bodies

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Pleural Friction Rub
Characteristics:
dry,grationg sound on both inspiration and expiration

LUNG PROBLEM:
pleurisy,pneumonia,
pleural infarct

Listen to these different lung sounds at http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/clinsci/callan/breath_sounds.htm