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What is aphasia?

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Impairment of language that affects the production or understanding of speech and ability to read or write

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What four things should a patient be alert and oriented to?

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Person
Place
Time
Event

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Battle sign can be seen where? And what causes it?

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Over the mastoid process

Indicative of a skull fracture

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What is Beck Triad?

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Narrowed pulse pressure
Muffled heart tones
JVD
Associated with cardiac tamponade, usually from penetrating chest trauma

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Where is bruit heard? What does it sound like?

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A whooshing sound in the carotid artery

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DCAP-BTLS?

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Deformities
Contusion
Abrasion
Penetration
Burns
Tenderness
Lacerations
Swelling
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What is the difference between dementia and delirium?

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Dementia: slow onset of progressive disorientation and loss of cognitive function
Delirium: rapid change in mental status

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What are dermatomes?

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Distinct areas of skin that correspond to specific spinal or cranial nerve levels where sensory nerves enter the central nervous system

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What is diaphoresis?

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Excessive sweating

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What is the term for double vision?

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Diplopia

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What does JVD indicate?

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Decreased venous return to the heart

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What is kyphosis?

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Outward curve of the thoracic spine

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What is lordosis?

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Exaggerated inward curve of the lumbar spine.

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What is murmur? And what does it indicate?

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An abnormal whoosh sound over the heart indicating turbulent blood flow over cardiac valve.

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What is paresthesias?

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Tingling feeling or sensory change

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What is the term for the ability to perceive the position and movement of ones body or limbs?

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Proprioception

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What does pulse oximetry measure?

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Oxygen saturation of hemoglobin in the capillary beds

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What is a humming vibration palates through the chest wall?

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Thrill

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What do you call normal lung sounds?

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Vesicular lung sounds

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How do you test for disability in cranial nerve I?

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Check smell

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How do you test for disability in cranial nerve II?

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Check visual acuity

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How do you test for disability in cranial nerve III?

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Chen pupil size, shape, symmetry, response to light, eye movements

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How do you test for disability in cranial nerve IV?

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Check eye movements

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How do you test for disability in cranial nerve V?

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Check jaw clench, touch both sides of face at forehead, cheeks, and jaw

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How do you test for disability in cranial nerve VI?

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Check eye movements

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How do you test for disability in cranial nerve VII?

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Check facial symmetry; look for abnormal movements; raise eyebrows, grin broadly, frown, shut eyes tightly, puff out cheeks; note any asymmetry

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How do you test for disability in cranial nerve VIII?

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Check hearing and balance

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How do you test for disability in cranial nerve IX and X?

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Check swallowing; perform general physical exam

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How do you test for disability in cranial nerve XI?

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Check shoulder shrug; turn head from left to right and back

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How do you test for disability in cranial nerve XII?

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Check swallowing; turn head from left to right and back

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What is scoliosis?

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Sideways curvature of the spine

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Which side of the chest has more lobes of lungs?

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Right side

32
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What does clubbing look like?

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The angle between the nail and the nail base exceeds or approaches 180 degrees

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What is clubbing a sign of?

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Chronic respiratory disease

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What is psoriasis? And what is it a sign of?

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Pitting, discoloration, and subungual thickening of the nail

It’s a sign of auto immune disease.

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What are terry nails? And what are they a sign of?

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Transverse white bands that cover the nail except the distal tip.
Sign of cirrhosis.

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What three physical signs does the Glasgow coma scale check?

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Eye opening
Verbal response
Motor response

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What are the Glasgow coma scores for motor response?

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Follows commands - 6
Localizes pain - 5
Withdraws to pain - 4
Decorticate flexion - 3
Decerebrate extension - 2
No response - 1
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What are the Glasgow coma scores for verbal response?

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Oriented and converses - 5
Disoriented conversation - 4
Speaking but nonsensical - 3
Moans or makes unintelligible sounds - 2
No response - 1
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What are the Glasgow coma scores for eye opening?

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Spontaneous - 4
To verbal command - 3
To pain - 2
No response - 1

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