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Lecture 2: Introduction to Physical Exam and Instruments Flashcards

First Midterm

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When should you wear gloves?

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Obvious Blood or body fluid

Patient presenting with diarrhea

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When should you wash your hands (related to gloves?)

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Before and after wearing gloves

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What are the 5 steps of hand washing?

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  1. Wet: wet hands with clean water and apply soap
  2. Lather: Rub hands together with soap
  3. Scrub: Wash hands for at least 20 seconds
  4. Rinse: Get rid of soap
  5. Dry
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What are clinical scenarios in which you should wear clinical gloves?

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Office/Clinic
Hospital 
ER 
Scene of Accident 
Sporting Event 
Restaurant 
Any other situation where skills are put to work
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When percussing different parts of the body, what type of sounds should you hear for fluid, solid, and air?

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Fluid: dull sound
Solid: flat sound
Air: tympanic sound

Flatten fingers over thorax/abdomen and strike distal thrid finger kuckle to elict sound

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What are some things you inspect about general appearance?

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Level of Consciousness
Signs of Distress
Skin abnormalities (lesions, bruises, cuts, etc)

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The bell of the stethoscope is used to hear what kind of sounds?

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low pitched sounds (e.g. bruits)

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The diaphragm of the stethoscope is used to hear what kind of sounds?

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High pitched

e.g. Breath sounds and heart tones

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When checking a child’s ear (>12 mo) with an otoscope, move the ear ___

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Up and back

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When checking a child’s ear (<12 mo) with an otoscope, move the ear ___

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Down and back

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The length of a blood pressure cuff’s bladder should be at least ____ of the upper arm

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80% of the circumference

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The width of a blood pressure cuff’s bladder should be at least ____

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40% the length of the upper arm

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The first knocking sound you hear when measuring blood pressure is the subject’s ______

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Systolic pressure (Korotkoff sound)

Disappears at diastolic pressure

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When can you get a falsely high BP?

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  1. If cuff is too small
  2. If cuff is too large on a large arm
  3. Brachial artery is below heart
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When can you get a falsely low BP?

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  1. If cuff is too large on small arm

2. Brachial artery is above heart

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What are locations to measure pulse?

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Radial A.
Dorsalis pedis A. 
Carotid A. 
Brachial A. 
Abdominal aorta 
Femoral A. 
Popliteal A.

-put pads of index and middle finger
dont use thumb

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What are the 4 techniques of examination?

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Inspection
Auscultation
Percussion
Palpation

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Goals of an osteopathic structural exam

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Integrates information about the musculoskeletal system even when dealing with non-musculoskeletal complaints

The body is a unit and possesses self regulatory mechanisms and structure and fxn are reciprocally interrelated

Rational therapy is based upon an understanding of body unity, self-regulatory mechanism and inter-relationship of structure and function

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The opthalmascope is an example of a ____ instrument

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Fundoscopic

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What is one thing you should always do?

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Compare bilaterally

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What is palpation and what types are there?

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  • Preformed with your hands

- superficial and deep

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How should sthecoscope earpeices face?

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should face foward in exteramal audtiory meatus

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Name the four types of hand washing:

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  • normal hand washing
  • antiseptic hand washing (wash with detergent containg antiseptic shit)
  • alcohol based hand rub: rubbing hands with alcohol containg prepration
  • surgical hand hygiene: using an alcohol based hand rub before operations by surgical personal
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How do you apply and remove gloves

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  • first wash hand or use hand sanitizer
  • then apply gloves
  • remove one glove and hold on to it
  • pull cuff over the hand and encase the glove
  • dispose in red bag
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prone
on stomach
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supine
on back
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lateral recumbant
lie on ur left or right side
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percuss
tap on
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palpate
examine
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insepect
look at
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ascultate
listen to: heart, lungs gi, and vascular sounds
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Wrap the blood pressure cuff ___ above the ____.
1 inch above the anticubital fossa | -arrow of the cuff should be aligned with the brachial artery of the patient
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What should you record for BP?
- RECORD pressure in both arms - differences - subjects position - which arm was used - what size of cuff was used
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How to use an opthalmoscope
- identify the lens selector and select 0 - turn on the light - have a patient pick a spot ofver your shoulder - hand on pts forehead - use your right hand and right eye to inspect their right eye - start 15 degrees laterally and move medially
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Half light
used if pupil is partially obstructed by lens with cateracts, half circle can be used to pass through the clear portion of the pupil to avoid light reflecting back
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red free
used to visualize the vessels and hemorrages by making a contrast --> retina will look b/w
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slit beam
used to examine the conture abmormalites of the cornea, lens and retina
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blue light
used with flurocesin yellow stain to oberve corneal abrasions and ulcers
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grid
used to make rough approximations of relitvie distances of retinal lesions
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For an otoscope what should you never do
never move through the cannal without looking into it. Ensure that you can see the path through the cannal.
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What two tests do a tuning fork do?
vibratory sense and hearing evaluation (air conduction and bone conduction). Does 2 neurological test (gross hearing for CN nerve and vibration sense.)
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Vibratory sense tuning fork test
place handle on patella, and compare l and r for duration
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air conduction
- last longer than bone condution | - hold fork infront of external audatory meatus
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bone conduction
hold handle on boney area behind ear
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Common errors in BP monitoring
- pt should aviod caffine, smoking and excercise 30 mins prior to measuring blood pressure - exam room should be quiet and warm - patient should sit quietly for 5 mins with feet on floor - arms should be free of clothing (no grafts, scars or lympadema) - heart should be in 4th intercostal space
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Auscultory gap
-period of dimineshed or absent kortokoff sounds during the manual measurment of blood pressure. Will cause underestimation of systolic BP and or over representation of diastolic BP.
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How to grade pulses
+3 - bounding +2 - brisk, expected (nml) +1 -diminished 0 -absent, unable to palpate
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Normal temp is
97.8-99 F
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rectal temp
.5-.7 degrees higher F than mouth (use glass or digital)
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Axillary temp
.3-.4 degrees lower than than taken by mouth (use glass or digital)
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Ear temp
normal, use a special thermoeter, reflects the body's core
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Skin
special thermotere can measure the skin on forehead
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for pulse report what?
- report per min - report if regular or irregular - \
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What is a normal pulse and normal RR
- normal pulse 60-100 bpm | - normal RR: 14-20 BPM
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What is a direct pupillary light reflex?
when light shined in the eye --> same side (ipsilateral) pupil constricts
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What is conseual pupillary light reflex
when light shines in one eye --> conteralateral (opp side) pupil also constricts
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Swinging flash light test
in dim light, note the size of the pupils. Then swing a beam of light for 1-2 seconds into one pupil then the other. The illumatiated eye should constrict and the opp eye should aslo constrict.
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An opthalmoscope identifies what?
1) fundus, retina, posterior chamber, optic nerve 2) pupillary reflex (direct and consensual) 3) red reflex (which is the normal reflection of the retina).
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Snellen eye chart
assess visual acuity - 20/20 is nml - chart is heald 14 inches from eye - test with both eyes open and also one at a time
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20/40 vision
means that the test subject sees at 20 feet what a nml person sees at 40 feet
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How far should you insert the otoscope into the ear?
1/4 to 1/2 length of the speculum. -identify canal, tympanic membrane, and reflected cone of light
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oropharyngeal exam
use tongue depressor for exam --> ask the patient to say AHH to raise the soft palate - indetify structures of the oral cavity.
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3 key steps for reflexes
- relax pt - strike tendon quickly - obtain DTR bilaterally and compare speed and intensity
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patellar
L4 nerve root
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achillies
S1 NERVE root
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biceps
THUMB IN BETWEEN TENDON AND HAMMER | -c5 nerve root
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brachioradialis
c6 nerve root
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triceps
c7 nerve root
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scales for grading reflexes
0 - absent 1 -somewhat dimineshed 2- normal 3- brisker than average, possibly but not necessarly indctive of dz 4-very brisk, hyperactive with clonus (rythmic oscilations between flexion and extension)
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WHAT ARE THE 5 VITAL SIGNS?
``` BP PULSE RR TEMP (PAIN) ```
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How do you get RR
``` either: look for chest rise and count or listen while examining heart and lung with stheosocpe -count for 30 seconds and multiply by 2 ```
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How do you take BP
arm is at the level of their hear put cuff on and make sure its the right size and make sure the cuff is aligned with the brachial atery (arrow) then put the diaphram at the brachial artery

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