hospital jargon

[mommalou]

can anyone explain the following please tracheal tug, crepitations, type 1 respiratory failure, horizontal fissure,sinus rhythm .

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Sounds like you need to speak to a nurse. Try the blf helpline when they reopen.

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To be quite honest, it is the doctor or respiratory nurse you should be speaking to or go on the internet and type in each word. If there is anything I want to know I ask the question in the search engine and it tells me everything.

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Hi mommalou - I've never heard of tracheal tug and agree it'd really be best to speak to an expert, but given it's a bank holiday I do know the meaning of some of the terms:

- crepitations or "creps" are the crackling sounds a dr might hear when listening to your chest if, for example, you have fluid/mucus in your lungs.

- type I respiratory failure - means that the normal gas exchange system of the lungs isn't working properly, which causes a drop in the level of oxgyen in the blood. In type I there is no corresponding increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels but in type II there is.

- horizontal fissure - your left lung has two lobes and the right lung has three. The horizontal fissure is just the division between the upper and middle lobe in your right lung.

- sinus rhythm just means your heartbeat

hope this helps

love, fairyfootsteps x

[chang]

Advice on speaking with medical professional has my agreement with term crepitations related by context, a crackling chest sound heard in pneumonia and other lung disease or grating sound of two ends of a broken bone rubbing together, with difference in meaning more detail will give the accuracy of use. Confusion and anxiety will come from misunderstanding with respect to google searching.

[Ozzygirl64]

I think a tracheal tug is a downwards movement that is not supposed to heppen, or something like that. I vaguely remember and aunt mentioning it. But best you speak to the nurse or GP about it xxxxx