The nurse is performing auscultation of breath sounds on a respiratory patient. The sounds heard on inspiration and expiration are low-pitched, coarse, gurgling, and have a snoring sound. What best identifies these sounds?
a. Crackles
b. Plural friction rub
c. Rhonchi
d. Sonorous wheezes
ANS: D
Sonorous wheezes have a low-pitched, coarse, gurgling, snoring quality and usually indicate the presence of mucus in the trachea and large airways.
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