Respiratory Examination 5: Palpation
  • Assess expansion and symmetry of the chest by placing your hands on the anterior chest wall
  • Put thumbs together in the midline
  • Ask the patient to breath deeply
  • Observe for movement of your thumbs UPWARDS over the sternum, and outwards from the lower rib cage
  • Then palpate for tactile vocal fremitus
    
 
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