Physical Assessment

Question 1

Which cancer is __ higher in Caucasian A. than African A.?

Which cancer is higher in African Americans than Caucasian Americans?

Answer 1

Skin cancer is 20% higher in Caucasian
Americans than African Americans.

Prostate cancer is higher in African Americans than Caucasian Americans.

Question 2

Burning plastic releases ______ _______.
Person can also have _____ poisoning.
Treatment for poisoning?

Answer 2

releases carbon monoxide.
cyanide poisoning
Cyanocobalamin to treat cyanide poisoning

Question 3

Ensure contact lenses are removed pre-operatively to reduce the risk of _____ ____

and dentures are removed to avoid ______

Answer 3

corneal abrasion.
aspiration.

Question 4

3 Types of Palpation and uses

Answer 4

Light palpation - organs
Deep palpation - abd masses
Bimanual palpation - organs

Question 4

List 3 Methods of Percussion
Where do they evaluate (2 each)

Answer 4

Mediate or Indirect Percussion - abd & thorax
Immediate Percussion - sinus & infant thorax
Fist Percussion - back & kidney

Question 4

Deep Palpation vs Bimanual Palpation

Answer 4

D: Like light palpation but finger are held at a greater angle to the body surface.

B: It involve using both hand to trap a structure between them. spleen, kidney, breast, uterus and ovary.

Question 5

How to do Mediate or Indirect Percussion

Answer 5

Finger on one hand as a plexor (Striking finger) and the middle finger of the other hand as a pleximeter (the finger being struck).

Used mainly to evaluate the abdomen or thorax.

Question 6

How to do Immediate Percussion?
What does it evaluate?

Answer 6

Striking the surface directly with the fingers of the hand.
Evaluate the sinus or an infant thorax.

Question 7

How to do Fist Percussion?

Answer 7

placing one hand flat against the body surface and striking the back of the hand with a clenched fist of the other hand.

Question 8

Sounds Produced by Percussion:
Normal Lungs
Emphysematous Lung

Answer 8

NL: resonance
EL: Hyperresonance

Question 9

upper airway sound from obstruction.

Answer 9

Stridor

Question 10

Normal Nail:
Shape
Angle

Answer 10

Shape: convex
Angle: between nail and its base is 160 degrees

Question 11

Koilonychia can be a sign of

other name

Answer 11

iron-deficiency anemia

also known as spoon nails

Question 12

If pt has no hair at all, expect he/she might have received _______.
Be cautious because tissues are _________.

Answer 12

Received chemotherapy.
Tissues are fryable.

Question 13

Define:
Strabismus
Leukoplakia

Answer 13

S: crossed eyes
L: thick white patches because of smoking and alcohol

Question 14

Ectropion
Entropion
Ptosis

Answer 14

E: eversion, lid margin turn out
E: inversion, lid margin turns inwards
P: abnormal drooping of lid over pupil

Question 15

A common cause of loss of peripheral vision

Answer 15

optic nervedamage fromglaucoma

Question 16

WEBER’S TEST
RINNES TEST

Answer 16

Rinne’s test. + when air conduction is better than bone conduction.
Weber’s is heard in the midline is equal

Question 17

Kahoot
Leoning Face associated with infectious disease?
Chipmunk face associated with which eating disorder?
Spider Angioma associated with which liver disease?
Pyloric Stenosis associated with mass shaped as?

Answer 17

Leoning Face associated with Leprosy.
Chipmunk face associated with Bulimia Nervosa
Spider Angioma associated with Cirrhosis.
Pyloric Stenosis associated with olive shaped mass.

Question 18

Kahoot
Hyperthyroidism is associated with what ophthalmic change
Physical feature for Cushing’s disease
Rice water stool is commonly found in what illness?

Answer 18

Hyperthyroidism ; Exophthalmos.
Cushing’s disease ; Buffalo hump
Rice water stool ; Cholera