Common side effects of Protonix IV include redness/pain/swelling at the injection site, headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, gas, dizziness, or joint pain. Long-term treatment with Protonix may make it harder for your body to absorb vitamin B-12, resulting in a deficiency of this vitamin.
Heart failure is a common problem, especially in elderly patients.1 The appearance of pulmonary crackles (rales), defined as discontinuous, interrupted, explosive respiratory sounds during inspiration, is one of the most important signs of heart failure deterioration.2 Many older patients with asymptomatic cardiovascular disease seem to have ...
Usually the COPD patients are diminished. Some to the point that you barely hear lung sounds at all. CHF patients are usually the ones that sound wet (they need lasix IV when its that bad). They can have various sounds depending on how sick they are.Usually you will hear rhonci and rales.ales and crackles are the same, they mean it sounds wet and crackly. Rhonci sound like leather rubbing together. Pneumonia patients may have a smorgasborg of sounds. I have also heard pneumonia patients that lung sounds are pretty much clear, but the xray shows infiltrates.