2025年1月5日 · Stridor is a high-pitched sound you make when you breathe through a narrow or partly blocked airway. Air can’t flow through your lungs smoothly, so it’s harder to breathe. Stridor is usually...

2025年1月6日 · Like wheezing, stridor suggests you have blocked airflow, but it happens more in your upper airway or throat than in your chest. Stridor causes Causes of stridor include:

Stridor, also known as noisy breathing, is a condition that causes you to make a high-pitched whistling noise when you breathe in or out. There are several causes for this condition, but the most common is a foreign object stuck in your airway. Contact your provider if you have noisy breathing because symptoms can be life-threatening.

2023年6月27日 · Stridor is a high-pitched, wheezing sound caused by disrupted airflow. Learn about types, stridor in children vs. adults, and more.

Careful auscultation of the nose, oropharynx, neck, and chest may help discern the location of the stridor. Infants should be examined with special attention to craniofacial morphology (looking for signs of congenital malformations), patency of the nares, and cutaneous abnormalities.

Stridor (from Latin ' creaking/grating noise ') is an extra-thoracic high-pitched breath sound resulting from turbulent air flow in the larynx or lower in the bronchial tree. It is different from a stertor, which is a noise originating in the pharynx. Stridor is a physical sign which is caused by a narrowed or obstructed airway.

2020年2月11日 · Stridor is a term to describe an abnormal, high-pitched breath sound produced by abnormal, turbulent air flow with respiration 1. It usually represents narrowing of the large, extrathoracic airways 2. Stridor can be caused by numerous conditions, but its presence may indicate a serious underlying pathology that requires immediate treatment 2.

2024年10月15日 · Stridor is a loud, harsh, high pitched respiratory sound. It may start as low-pitched 'croaking' and progress to high-pitched 'crowing' on more vigorous respiration. It is usually heard on inspiration due to partial obstruction of the airway (usually extrathoracic - that is, in the trachea, larynx or pharynx).

Stridor refers to harsh upper airway sounds, classically inspiratory; Clinical Features. Inspiratory stridor Suggestive of extrathoracic obstruction (Pressure trach < Pressure atm) foreign body, epiglottitis; Expiratory stridor vs. wheezing. Suggestive of intrathoracic obstruction (Pressure trach < Pressure pleura) Asthma; Differential ...

2024年7月11日 · Stridor is a harsh, high-pitched vibratory breath sound produced by upper airway obstruction during inspiration and/or expiration. It is a red flag for both respiratory failure and a difficult intubation. Patients with stridor should be assessed immediately for clinical features of airway obstruction and signs of impending respiratory failure.