The pediatric nurse assessing a patient for breath sounds documents a loud, high-pitched sound heard only over the trachea. The nurse should document this finding as which of the following?
A.
Adventitious breath sound
B.
Bronchial breath sound
C.
Bronchovesicular breath sound
D.
Vesicular breath sound
ANS: B
Bronchial breath sounds are loud, high-pitched, and heard only over the trachea. Bronchovesicular breath sounds are of intermediate intensity and pitch, with equal inspiratory and expiratory phases. These sounds are best heard between the scapulae and over the mainstem bronchi. Vesicular breath sounds are heard throughout the lung fields. These soft and low-pitched sounds have a longer inspiratory than expiratory phase. Adventitious sounds of these three classifications are described as crackles, wheezes, and rhonchi, respectively.
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