Question

1.) If you pressed a stethoscope diaphragm firmly on a volunteer's skin at the following locations on the right side of the body:

1. Inferior to the clavicle (this is the 1^st intercostal space)
2. In a more inferior intercostal space
3. Along the medial border of the scapula

What type of sounds are you listening for? [a]

2.) If you located a volunteer’s larynx. Then pressed the stethoscope diaphragm on the skin just inferior to the subject’s larynx.  

What type of sounds are you listening for here?

3.) If a patient cannot expel enough air within the first second of an FEV1 test, what type of disorder would they have?

		a. obstructive
		b. restrictive
		c. inflammatory
		d. no disorder, they are healthy

4.)During an FEV1 test, what percentage of air should a healthy patient be able to exhale within the first second?

		a. 75% or more
		b. 80% or more
		c. 85% or more
		d. 90% or more

Answer 1

1. Vesicular Breath Sound

It is soft and low pitched sound in which inspiration is greater than expiration, and is heard around area of lung (inferior to clavicle, intercostal space, medial border of scapula).

2. Bronchial (Tracheal) Breath Sound.

Loud and high pitched sound in which expiration is heard greater than inspiration, and is heard over trachea or inferior to larynx.

3. a. Obstructive

Obstructive Lung disease is diagnosed when subject is unable to expel 75% of their breath within 1 second (FEV1).

4. a. 75% or more

When subject is unable to expel 75% of their breath within 1 second, it is diagnosed as obstructive lung disease.