Clinical Skills Flashcards
What is a hockey-stick scar in the iliac fossa region suggestive of?
Patient has had a kidney transplant.
In which patients can you feel their kidney?
Polycystic kidney disease.
Thin people.
Which patients will have big kidneys?
Polycystic kidney disease.
Multiple myeloma.
Diabetes.
Which kidney patients will you expect to see shifting dullness in?
Patients on peritoneal dialysis.
How would you ask a patient about frequency?
How often do you pass urine from the time you wake up in the morning until the time you go to sleep at night?
How would you ask a patient about nocturia?
How many times, on average, are you woken from sleep because you need to pass urine?
How would you ask a patient about urgency?
When you get the feeling of wanting to pass your water, can you hold on or do you have to go immediately?
If you are watching your favourite TV Programme, and get the feeling of wanting to pass urine, can you delay until the programme is finished?
