Respiratory
Any discontinuous noises heard during auscultation of the lungs. They are caused by the popping open of air spaces and are usually associated with increased fluid in the lungs.
What are Crackles/Rales?
A determination made when assessing mental status by asking the patient four areas: person, place, time, and the event itself. Each element provides information about different aspects of the patient’s memory.
What is Alert and Oriented (AxO)?
This sound is often heard when the tongue falls back into the upper airway.
What are snoring respiration?
An evaluation tool used to determine level of consciousness by evaluating and assigning point values (scores) for eye opening, verbal response, and motor response, which are then totaled; effective in helping predict patient outcomes.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)?
Hemoptysis
What is coughing up blood?
Abnormal flexion of the arms toward the chest with the toes pointed; this finding indicates lower cerebral damage.
What is decorticate posturing?
A harsh, high-pitched inspiratory sound representing air moving past an obstruction within or immediately above the glottic opening; associated with severe upper airway obstruction, such as that caused by laryngeal edema.
What is Stridor?
A condition in which the blood supply to the brain is interrupted.
What is a Stroke?
The trachea bifurcates into the left and right mainstem bronchi of the lungs at a ridgelike projection of tracheal cartilage.
What is the Carina?