NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 81: Respiratory Assessment: Breath Sounds, Breathing Patterns, Oxygenation, and Sputum

Sarah Mitchell teaches respiratory assessment from the doorway inward, rate, effort, retractions, tripod position, barrel chest, and the Cheyne-Stokes, Kussmaul, and Biot patterns. She distinguishes fine and coarse crackles, wheezes, rhonchi, stridor, and friction rub, explains dull versus hyperresonant percussion and tactile fremitus, names the early signs of hypoxia, decodes sputum colors, covers peak flow zones and incentive spirometry, and flags tracheal deviation as a late sign of tension pneumothorax.

Lesson 81 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.

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