31 minutes, Produced in 2006

This DVD will show you how to recognize respiratory signs and symptoms, such as adventitious breath sounds and dyspnea; identify their likely causes; and provide prompt and effective nursing care.

You'll learn:

• where to listen for bronchial, bronchovesicular, and vesicular breath sounds - and what these sounds mean
• how to accurately assess diaphragmatic excursion, chest expansion, and vocal resonance
• how pneumonia can produce coarse crackles, whispered pectoriloquy, bronchophony, and egophony
• how to distinguish between crackles and other adventitious sounds, such as sonorous wheezes
• what it can mean when a patient with dyspnea develops an accentuated pulmonic heart sound, or P2
• how to tell if your patient has a pleural friction rub or a pericardial friction rub - and what this finding could mean .....and much, much more.