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1. Purpose of Auscultating Bowel Sounds:
Answer to assess a normal pattern of bowelsounds
2. Peristaltic activity:
Answer involuntary contraction and relaxation of longitudinal andcircular muscles
throughout the digestive tract
3. Abdominal pain assessment order:
Answer assess the painful abdominal area last.
4. Normal bowel sounds:
Answer 5-34 clicks/gurgles per minute
5. Abnormal bowel sounds:
Answer
- Hypoactive bowel sounds
- Hyperactive bowel sounds
- borborygmus sounds
6. Borborygmus:
Answer loud, gurgling sounds made by the movement of gas through theintestines.
7. Hyperactive bowel sounds:
Answer loud, high-pitched sounds; heard in patients withdiarrhea, laxative use,
gastroenteritis, early intestinal obstruction
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