REGIS. NU 650 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE SOLUTION GUIDE FOR THE FINALS NEW SOLUTION
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REGIS. NU 650
REGIS. NU 650 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE SOLUTION GUIDE FOR THE FINALS NEW SOLUTION
Order of Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER Inspection, Palpation, Percussion and Auscultation. EXCEPT with abdomen
Comprehensive Health History - CORRECT ANSWER chief complaint, reason for visit, ROS, past med...
REGIS. NU 650 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
COMPLETE SOLUTION GUIDE FOR THE FINALS NEW
SOLUTION
Order of Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER Inspection, Palpation, Percussion and
Auscultation. EXCEPT with abdomen
Comprehensive Health History - CORRECT ANSWER chief complaint, reason for
visit, ROS, past medical and surgical history, social history and family history
Pediatric Body measurements - CORRECT ANSWER length, height, weight, head
circumference fro birth to 36 months
Normal/Hypertension cut off - CORRECT ANSWER <130 normal 140+ hypertension
otoscope - CORRECT ANSWER adult-up and back, peds- down and back, using
largest speculum that will fit comforably
tympanic membrane - CORRECT ANSWER Cone of light R-5 l-7
EOM testing - CORRECT ANSWER CN III, IV, VI
AP diameter of chest - CORRECT ANSWER 1:2 (AP less than transverse)
barrel chest - CORRECT ANSWER COPD
Flat or Dull percussion - CORRECT ANSWER effusion or pneumonia
normal resonant percussion - CORRECT ANSWER healthy lung
,Hyperressonance (percussion) - CORRECT ANSWER trapped air
crackles/rales - CORRECT ANSWER high pitched, discontinuous
Wheezes - CORRECT ANSWER high-pitched whistling or squeaking sounds during
inspiration or expiration
Rhonchi - CORRECT ANSWER snoring, rumbling sounds heard upon auscultation of
the chest during respiration-low pitched
tactile fremitus - CORRECT ANSWER • INCREASED FREMITUS
- Means there is liquid or solid inside the lungs (consolidation such as with
pneumonia)
- Remember Liquid or solid transmits vibrations better than air
•DECREASED FREMITUS
Means air trapping such as with emphysema or bronchial obstruction.
Bronchophony - CORRECT ANSWER the spoken voice sound heard through the
stethoscope, which sounds soft, muffled, and indistinct over normal lung tissue,
clearer over disease
Egophony - CORRECT ANSWER abnormal change in tone of voice that is heard
when auscultating the lungs EE-->AA
UE Arteries - CORRECT ANSWER radial-thumb side, ulnar pinky side
clubbing - CORRECT ANSWER bulbous enlargement of distal phalanges of fingers
and toes that occurs with chronic cyanotic heart and lung conditions
edema scale - CORRECT ANSWER 1+ = disappears rapidly. 2+ = last 10-15
seconds. 3+ = lasts more than one minute. 4+ = lasts 2-5 minutes. These are
signs used in what scale?
normal/abnormal findings spleen - CORRECT ANSWER normal=tympanic, dullness
could be enlargement not normally felt on exam
Blumberg Sign: Rebound Test - CORRECT ANSWER peritoneal inflammation, hurts
more when release from palpation
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