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| appendix or colon (diverticulitis, sm. Intestine, ulcerative colitis, chron's disease) |
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| diverticulitis, small intestine, ulcerative colitis, chron's disease |
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| what does ↑ bowel sounds indicate |
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| what does ↓ bowel sounds indicate |
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| infections or meds like anticholinergics or opioids |
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| what is an abdominal bruit |
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| abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) |
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| what is the normal peristalsis time |
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| tingling & rushing in the colon indicate what |
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| increased amounts of fluid e.g. diarrhea |
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| presence of bowel sounds (normal) |
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| in the abdomen what does shifting dullnes indicate |
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| ascites / cirrhosis of the liver (e.g. alcoholism) |
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| if you percuss and found the liver was 14cm what does that indicate |
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| hepatomegaly (liver normally = 6-12cm) |
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| "fluid wave" & tenderness in the abdomen indicates what |
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| fecal occult blood test (FOBT) |
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| prostate specific antigen |
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| deformities & stiffness in the hands indicate |
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| soft tissue swelling in the hands indicate |
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| early rheumatoid arthritis |
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| gouty inflammation of the first MTP joint |
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| deep red and warm to touch foot indicates |
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| abduct/movement away from core of body |
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| add/movement toward core of body |
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| foot flexed upward (toes up) |
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| foot flexed downward (toes down) |
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| vestibular cochlear nerve (acoustic nerve) many drugs can cause hearing loss / vestibular issues |
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| person is alert & oriented times three |
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| what questions are asked to determine mental status |
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| feel what item is in hand |
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| draw something on patients hand and patient detemrines what it is "8" |
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| use one or two points and make patient state 1 or 2 |
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| point then make patient point to same location |
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| point to two opposite positions then make patient point/distinguish how many and where |
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| people with cerebellar disorder will sway |
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| palms up and out. Patient will turn pronator and down (spasticity &/or motor neuron lesion) |
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| when patient curls toes downward after testing plantar reflex indicates what |
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| when patient bends toes upward after testing plantar reflex indicates what |
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| babinski response-- STROKE |
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| DTR recording: what is normal |
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| 2+ throughout & arrow pointing down (around foot) |
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| flexing a child's neck which causes relfex of lower extremity indicates |
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| brudzinski sign (meningeal inflammation) |
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| moving child's leg up to 90 degree and leg bends indicates |
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| kernig (meningeal inflammation) |
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| massaging the carotid will do what |
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| decrease heart rate / blood pressure |
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| thyroid bruit indicates what |
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| what is normal capillary refill time |
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| what can cause delay in capillary refill time |
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| volume depletion (dehydration), vasoconstriciont, peripheral edema, room temperature (false elevation) |
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| vasculitis & gangrene of fingertips can be caused by |
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| check to see if radial and ulnar pulses are both working |
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| stiffness, pain, and ropey /chord feeling in calf indicates what |
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| Jugular venous distention indicates |
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| congestive heart failure (must be >4 to 5 cm) |
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| Hepatojugular Reflux (HJR)--what is the test--what does it indicate |
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| palpate liver--looking for jugular distention--indicates congestive heart failure |
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| angle between manubrium & body of sternum |
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| Lungs: how many right lobes? How many left lobes |
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| where can you listen to the RUL, LUL, etc. |
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| RUL=front-back LUL=front-back RML=side-front RLL=back LLL=back |
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| what is normal respiratory rate |
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| what is indicated with AP greater than 1:2 |
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| AP=anteroposterior diameter--greater than 1:2 means barrel chest / EMPHYSEMA (COPD) |
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| pursed lips indicates what |
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| broadening thickening of fingertips and flattening of angle between cutical and nail |
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| longstanding hypoxemia - cytic fibrosis - end stage emphysema (check-clubbing-cyanosis-edema) |
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| costovertebral angle tenderness (CVAT) indicates |
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| renal disease (pyelonephritis)--is not a pulmonary disease test |
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| while checking chest expansion-would the movement be more or less on the restrictive side |
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| what is the practitioner doing & what does the patient say while performing Tactile Fremitus |
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| increased fremitus indicates |
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| decreased fremitus indicates |
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| pleural effusion (fluid between lung and parietal pleura) |
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| is Tactile Fremitus test diagnostic |
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| NO--only provides supporting evidence |
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| where is the narrow area to percuss the lungs |
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| between scapula and spinal column |
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| Percussion: what is loud, low pitch |
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| Percussion: what sound would pneumonia or solid organ give |
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| Percussion: what is very loud & low pitch |
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| what is diaphragmatic excursion |
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| indication of lungs ability to expand during inspiration! |
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| air moving through fluid (discontinuous sporadic) |
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| air moving through narrow airways (whistling sound) |
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| secretions in large airways (sounds like milkshake) |
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| AUSCULTATION: you hear 99 louder in one area indicates |
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| bronchophony (pneumonia--airless lung) |
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| AUSCULTATION: you hear an A when patient is saying E |
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| Egophony (pneumonia--airless lung) |
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| AUSCULTATION: you hear 123 louder than normal (normally should be faint - indistinguishable) |
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| Whispered pectoriloquy (pneumonia--airless lung) |
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| someone has blocked airway--medical emergency |
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| clear to auscultation and percussion |
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| turgor skin is normal or abnormal |
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| tenting skin is normal or abnormal |
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| pupils equal round reactive light accomodation |
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| T/F pupils have consensual constriction |
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| True: pupils constrict even when only one eye is exposed to light |
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| hypertension (bulging disk in the eye) |
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