Chapter 6 Content

Question 1

Normal Sequence for Head to Toe Assessment

Answer 1

1.Inspection 2.Palpation 3.Percussion 4.Ausculation

Question 2

What do you do first?

Answer 2

General Survey: *Physical appearance *Body Structure *Mobility *Behavior

Question 3

LOC?

Answer 3

Level of Consciousness: Awake, Alert, Oriented( Person, place, time)

Question 4

If Disoriented what order do they lose their orientation?

Answer 4

1.Time 2.Place 3.Person

Question 5

HEENT?

Answer 5

Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, Throat

Question 6

balding?

Answer 6

Alopecia

Question 7

Female presents with facial hair

Answer 7

Hirsutism

Question 8

Half the face is strained, one eye is closed, half the mouth is smiling

Answer 8

Bell’s Palsy

Question 9

Pink Eye

Answer 9

Conjuctivitis

Question 10

Conjunctiva turns yellow (jaundice)

Answer 10

Scleral icterus

Question 11

Child abuse

Answer 11

Non accidental trauma

Question 12

One eye dilated. What is it called and must you ask?

Answer 12

Anisocoria. How long have you had this?

Question 13

Drooping of the upper eyelid

Answer 13

Ptosis

Question 14

Where is one place to push on the ear to asses pain?

Answer 14

The Targus

Question 15

When the trachea is not midline?

Answer 15

Caused by pneumothorax- collapsed lung pushes trachea laterally. This is an emergency!!

Question 16

How does COPD affect the thorax?

Answer 16

Barrel chest

Question 17

Thorax looks sunken in

Answer 17

Pectus excavatum

Question 18

pigeon-chested, front of boat

Answer 18

Pectus carinatum

Question 19

hunch back

Answer 19

kyphosis

Question 20

Twisted back

Answer 20

Scoliosis

Question 21

what sound?

Answer 21

sibilant wheeze high pitch

Question 22

what sound?

Answer 22

sonorous wheeze (Rhonchi) lower pitch

Question 23

what sound?

Answer 23

mild stridor- obstruction of larynx

Question 24

what sound?

Answer 24

severe stridor- obstruction of larynx

Question 25

what sound?

Answer 25

crackles/ Rales

Question 26

what sound?

Answer 26

fine crackles

Question 27

what sound?

Answer 27

coarse crackles

Question 28

what sound?

Answer 28

pleural rub- inflammation in pleura

Question 29

Where is tricuspid?

Answer 29

Right atrioventricular valve (remember God placed his trade mark (TM) on the heart. M is Mitral)

Question 30

Abdominal Sequence?

Answer 30

Inspection

Auscultation

Palpation

Percussion

Question 31

digital clubbing worry about?

Answer 31

heart or respiratory problem

Question 32

splinter hemorrages? Worry about?

Answer 32

Endocarditis

Question 33

ankle pulse is?

Answer 33

posterior tibial pulse

Question 34

Foot pulse is called?

Answer 34

Dorsalis Pedis Pulse