Station1:Chest Percussion

Clinical Method_Respiratory

A colleague who sit for the paces diet 1 in 2009 was criticized by an examiner that he made percussion of the chest far below the boundaries of the lungs.

How far should we percuss downward on back of the chest in Respiration Station?

• In quiet respiration, the lungs’ inferior
  margin travels around the thoracic wall
  following a VI, VIII, X contour

  (i.e. rib VI in the midclavicular line, rib VIII in the
  midaxillary line, and vertebra TX posteriorly).