Head

Question 1

What does a tension headache feel like?

Answer 1

A rubber band around the head

Question 2

What is prodromal

Answer 2

A warning sign before a headache starts

Question 3

What is Cushing disease?

Answer 3

Increased cortisol produces the signs and symptoms
-moon face
-Excessive hair growth for women

Question 4

What are the symptoms of nephrotic syndrome?

Answer 4

edema
Pale
Focused around the eyes
Worse in the mornings

Question 5

What are the symtpoms of myxedema?

Answer 5

Hypothyroidism
Dull, puffy face
Cannot pit the edema
Hair is dry, coarse, and thin

Question 6

What are you inspecting for a head exam?

Answer 6

Normocephalic
Microcephalic
Macrocephalic

Question 7

What are you inspecting for when palpating the TMJ?

Answer 7

Clicking
Cracking
ROM

Question 8

Where do the two paired salivar glands lie near?

Answer 8

The mandible
*salivary is superficial
*submandibular is deep

Question 9

Where does the superficial temporal artery pass in front of?

Answer 9

The ear

Question 10

What makes up the anterior cervical triangle?

Answer 10

The mandible
The SCM
Midline of the neck

Question 11

What makes up the posterior cervical triangle?

Answer 11

SCM
Trapezius
Clavicle

Question 12

What artery and vein runs deep to the SCM?

Answer 12

The carotid artery
The internal jugular vein

Question 13

What vein passes diagonally over the surface of the SCM?

Answer 13

The external jugular vein

Question 14

Name the midline structures from proximal to distal

Answer 14

Hyoid bone
Thyroid cartilage
Cricoid cartilage
Thyroid gland

Question 15

What are the 10 lymph nodes that can be palpated

Answer 15

Preauricular
Postauricular
Occipital
Tonsillar
Submandibular
Submental
Superficial/Deep cervical
Posterior cervical
Posterior superficial
Supraclavicular

Question 16

What are the characteristics of a lymph node?

Answer 16

Round oval
Smooth
Small
non tender
No pulse

Question 17

What are the characteristics of a gland?

Answer 17

Larger
Irregular

Question 18

What can lymph nodes detect?

Answer 18

Malignancy
Inflammation
Infection

Question 19

What are the characteristics of an infected, inflamed lymph node/

Answer 19

Swollen
Red
Painful
Firm

Question 20

Characteristics of malignant lymph node?

Answer 20

Fixed
Grow over time
Non-tender

Question 21

What is lymphadenopathy?

Answer 21

Swollen lymph node
*DOES NOT MEAN TENDER

Question 22

What is a thyroid goiter

Answer 22

An abnormal thyroid
*can be benign
*can function fine

Question 23

What type of lighting do you use to inspect the neck?

Answer 23

Tangential lighting

Question 24

What are snotty lymph nodes/

Answer 24

Small, mobile, discrete and non-tender
*Frequently found in healthy patients

Question 25

What is bruits?

Answer 25

Sounds like swishing
*always indicative of Graves Disease
*Hyperthyroidism

Question 26

What does BPPV stand for?

Answer 26

BenignParoxysmal Positional vertigo

Question 27

What causes BPPV/

Answer 27

Induced by positional changes of the head

Question 28

What maneuver do you do to test for BPPV?

Answer 28

Dix-Hallpike
*Look for nystagmus

Question 29

What is the most common cause of BPPV/

Answer 29

Canalithiasis of the posterior semicircular canal

Question 30

What maneuver do you do to allievate the symptoms of BPPV?

Answer 30

Epley Maneuver

Question 31

In which canals can epley maneuver treat BPPV?

Answer 31

Posterior or anterior canals

Question 32

What direction can you move a lymph node?

Answer 32

Up and down
Side to side