The nurse is caring for a client with a decrease in airway diameter causing airway resistance. The client experiences coughing and mucus production. Upon lung assessment, which adventitious breath sounds are anticipated?
A) Crackles
B) Rhonchi
C) Rubs
D) Wheezes
D
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A decrease in airway diameter, such as in asthma, produces breath sounds of wheezes. Wheezes are a whistling type of sound relating to the narrowing on the airway. A wheeze can have a high-pitched or low-pitched quality. Crackles, also noted as rales, are crackling or rattling sounds signifying fluid or exudate in the lung fields. Rhonchi are a course rattling sound similar to snoring usually caused by secretion in the bronchial tree. Rubs are secretions that can be heard in the large airway.
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