Module 3 Flashcards
Abdo need 4 things
Inspection
Auscultation
Percussion
Palpation
Inspection
Careful observation using your sight, smelling, hearing
Deep palpation where
Abdo
Fingertips are best for assessing what
Skin texture
Presence of lumps
Pulsation
Back,of the hands is good for
Temperature
Fingers and thumbs
Good for determine the shape of a organ
How to precus
Place your interphalgal joint firmly on the patient skin
Then use your two middle fingers of your dominant hand to strike the stationary finger right angle aim for the area behind the nail bed or distal to the interphgal joint
Deliver two short sharp tops with the finger using a wrist action for cost two times in the location been left the finger so you don’t dampen the sound
Percussion noises
Tympany
Hyperresonance
Resonant
Dull
Flat
Loud high hollow drum like airfield stomach intestines
Very loud, low boom like puff cheeks tension, pneumo
Medium, loud, low, clear, hollow normal healthy lungs
Soft muffled liver spleen
Very soft high bone or tumour
Hip to waist ratio
35 inch women
40 inch men
Cellar metabolism needs a rate of
37.2
Normal body temp
35.8 to 37.3
Stroke volume
70ml
Bp changes
Rises with age
Become slower after puberty and higher after menopause
African descent have higher
BP is highest in late afternoon
And obese patients
Stress
Exercise
Five things blood pressure is determined by
Cardio I’ll put
Peripheral vascular resistance
Volume of circulating blood
Viscosity
Elasticity of vessel walls