While assessing a patient who has pneumonia, the nurse has the patient repeat the letter $\mathrm{E}$ while the nurses auscultates. The nurse notes that the patients voice sounds are distorted and that the letter A is audible instead of the letter E. How should this finding be documented?

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This finding would be documented as egophony, which can be best assessed by instructing the patient to repeat the letter $\mathrm{E}$. The distortion produced by consolidation transforms the sound into a clearly heard A rather than E. Bronchophony describes vocal resonance that is more intense and clearer than normal. Whispered pectoriloquy is a very subtle finding that is heard only in the presence of rather dense consolidation of the lungs. Sound is so enhanced by the consolidated tissue that even whispered words are heard. Sonorous wheezes are not defined as a voice sound, but rather as a breath sound.

While Assessing a Patient Who Has Pneumonia, the Nurse Has E\mathrm{E}E

While Assessing a Patient Who Has Pneumonia, the Nurse Has $\mathrm{E}$