During a Chest Assessment, You Note the Patient's Voice Quality

question 13

Multiple Choice

During a chest assessment, you note the patient's voice quality while auscultating the lung fields. The voice sound is intensified, the voice has a nasal quality, and the e's sound like a's. This is indicative of:

• A) lung consolidation.
• B) emphysema.
• C) bronchial obstruction.
• D) asthma.

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Definitions:

Speech Sounds

Speech sounds are the auditory signals or phonemes that are produced by the human vocal apparatus to form the building blocks of spoken language.

Discriminate

The act of recognizing or noting the difference between things; often used in context where unfair treatment is based on differences like race, gender, age, etc.

Synaptic Pruning

The process by which extra neurons and synaptic connections are eliminated in the brain to increase the efficiency of neuronal transmissions.