PHYSIOLOGY
PULMONARY PHYSIOLOGY
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Question
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You are listening to lungs around the lung periphery and hear a soft low pitch sound or a “gentle rustling sound". Which sound could this be?
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Tracheal
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Bronchial
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Bronchovesicular
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Vesicular
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Vesicular sounds are soft, blowing, or rustling sounds normally heard throughout most of the lung fields. Vesicular sounds are normally heard throughout inspiration, continue without pause through expiration, and then fade away about one third of the way through expiration.
Detailed explanation-2: -The next thing to note is the pitch: wheezes and fine crackles are high pitched, whereas rhonchi and coarse crackles are low pitched. Crackles are generated by small airways snapping open on inspiration. [2] Therefore, they are predominantly inspiratory.
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