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NREMT Advanced EMT

Category - Airway and Respiration

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Your patient says he has been feeling ill for days, especially in the chest area. You notice when checking his lungs that there is vibrating in the chest when the patient is speaking. What is this patient suffering?

Tactile fremitus
Hematemesis
Hemoptysis
Pulsus paradoxus

Explanation

Answer - A - When you feel vibration in the chest when a patient is speaking, they are suffering from tactile fremitus. When evaluating tactile fremitus, care on side of the chest with the other. This sign is common in pneumonia, where the sound vibrations travel father through areas of lung consolidation.

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