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A nurse is documenting a patient's breath sounds. Crackles are heard as:
 
  a. loud, low-pitched, coarse sounds.
  b. high-pitched, musical squeaks.
  c. dry, grating sounds on inspiration.
  d. high-pitched, fine sounds at the end of inspiration.
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Fine crackles are high-pitched, fine, short, interrupted crackling sounds heard during the end of inspiration; they usually are not cleared with coughing. Rhonchi are loud, low-pitched, rumbling, coarse sounds heard most often during inspiration or expiration that may be cleared by coughing. Wheezes are high-pitched, continuous, musical sounds like a squeak heard continuously during inspiration or expiration; they are usually louder on expiration and do not clear with coughing. Pleural friction rub has a dry, grating quality heard best during inspiration; it does not clear with coughing and is heard loudest over the lower lateral anterior surface.
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