Palpitation Flashcards
What is palpitation
Diagnostic technique
Touch,feel,push,press parts of body
Palpitation, touching
To assess temperature and moisture
Gentle on body surface
Using fingers to palpate patients body with more strength then touching to detect tenderness and swelling.
Usually Chest and abdomen
Seeking or stroking
Pressing
Palpate body with heavy pressure deep in the body or abdomen to probe for masses or pain.
Heat is intense upon initial pressure but becomes mild after time.
Exterior heat
Heat is mild upon initial pressure but becomes intense after time and spreads outward.
Internal heat
Skin is not hot but patient feels hot, or skin feels hot when pushing down to the bone.
Deficiency heat
Skin does not feel hot, but sticky. Or skin feels warmer with prolonged pressure,
Damp heat
Cold skin
Yang deficiency or yin excess
Yang deficient
Cold hands and feet, extend above the knees and elbows.
Cold fingers and toes but warm up easily.
Yang stagnation
Moist skin
Sufficient body fluid
Body fluid insufficient
Dry skin
Hands and feet are warmer on the dorsam (top)
Exterior heat
Hands and feet are warmer on the palms (under)
Deficiency
Dorsal(top) of hands and feet is hotter than palm
Exterior heat
Palm of hands and feet is hotter than dorsal(top)
Interior heat
Forehead is hotter than palm
Exterior heat
Palm is hotter the forehead
Interior heat
Why palpate the right hypochondriam bilaterally
Liver/GB condition
Pain aggravated by pressure
Excess syndrome
Pain alleviated by pressure
Deficiency syndrome
Fixed and immovable mass associated by pain?
Blood stasis
Mass comes and goes, no fixed location
Qi stagnation
Heart
Governs blood
Lung
Governs qi
Spleen/Stomach
Transportation and transformation
Liver
Stores blood
Kidney
Essence transformed into Qi
Left side
Cun-heart
Guan-liver
Chi-kidney
Distal
Cun
Middle finger
Guan
Proximal
Chi