Author Question: The sounds heard over the trachea during the auscultation of the thorax, are expected to be: 1. ... (Read 32 times)

yoroshambo · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

The sounds heard over the trachea during the auscultation of the thorax, are expected to be:

1. Soft, low-pitched, and breezy
2. Loud, high-pitched, and hollow
3. Moist, crackling, and bubbling
4. High-pitched and musical

Question 2

The nurse is evaluating the client for conduction deafness in the right ear. In using Weber's test, the nurse appropriately places the tuning fork and confirms this type of deafness when:

1. Sound is not heard in either ear
2. Sound is heard best by the client in the left ear
3. Sound is heard best by the client in the right ear
4. Sound is reduced and heard longer through air conduction

durant1234 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: 2
Sounds heard during auscultation over the trachea should be loud, high-pitched and hollow. Soft, low-pitched, and breezy sounds are heard over the lung's periphery.
Moist, crackling, and bubbling sounds are adventitious sounds known as crackles and are caused by sudden reinflation of groups of alveoli and disruptive passage of air. They are most commonly heard in dependent lobes: right and left lung bases. High-pitched and musical sounds are wheezes. Wheezes can be heard over all lung fields.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 3
In conduction deafness, sound is heard best in the impaired ear. Sound that is not heard in either ear is not indicative of conduction deafness. Sound would not be heard best by the client in the left ear if there was conduction deafness in the right ear. This option is describing the Rinne's test, not the Weber's test. In conduction deafness, bone-conducted sound can be heard longer. In sensorineural loss, sound is reduced and heard longer through air.