Stridor (Abnormal Lung Sounds) | Causes and Treatment

What is Stridor? This video will teach you about the causes and treatment of stridor, which is a type of abnormal lung sounds.

➡️ What is Stridor?
It is a type of wheezing that is caused by an upper airway obstruction. It's common in both croup and epiglottitis.

▪Croup - subglottic swelling
▪Epiglottitis - supraglottic swelling

Stridor makes a distinct, recognizable, high-pitch sound. Stridor should be treated with cool mist and racemic epinephrine. But in severe cases, the patient may need to be intubated immediately.

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0:05 - What is Stridor?

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[daisybradley]

What is considered severe? This video wasn't detailed enough for me.

[manashmaitra]

Please add the sounds of auscaltation after theory so that I can relate it, 👍👍👍👍

[gmroye]

In suffer with UIP and I cough a lot till something I pass out. It really horrible!

[nadirahmelvin]

Is it considered a bronchial complete obstruction?

[Cruella-Deville]

This ended before it began. It said nothing ?