Percussion Notes

Question 1

Resonant

Answer 1

Medium-loud, low pitched, clear and hollow quality, moderate duration, over normal lung tissue

Question 2

Hyperresonant

Answer 2

Louder, lower pitched, booming quality, longer duration, normal over child’s lung but abnormal in the adult over lungs.

Question 3

Tympany

Answer 3

Loud, high pitched, musical and drum like,

kettledrum), longest sustained sound, found over air filled viscus (stomach, intestine

Question 4

Dull

Answer 4

Soft, high, muffled thud, short, found over a relatively dense organ such as a liver or spleen

Question 5

Flat

Answer 5

very soft, high pitched, a dead stop of sound, absolute dullness, very short duration, when no air is present, over thigh muscles, a bone, or a tumor

Question 6

what percussion note would you hear if there was ascites?

Answer 6

you would hear tympany over the areas where the ascites was.