Physio Assessment Flashcards
1
Q
IPPA: - What do you do for inspection?
A
- Lines and values on monitors (RR, HR, SpO2, BP)
- Position of patient
- Head (facial expression, orientation, speech, skin (pallor, cyanosis, scars), lips (colour, pursed lip breathing), nose)
- Neck (accessory muscle use, jugular vein distension)
- Chest (scars, chest wall deformities (barrel, pigeon, kyphosis, scoliosis), muscle wasting, what type of breather are they (apical, diaphragmatic, intercostal indwelling), chest movement/breathing pattern (RR)
- eupnea? tachypnea? hyperpnea? bradypnea? apnea? cheyne stokes?
- limbs (colour, clubbing of fingers, edema (how much?))
- cough (weak vs. strong, productive vs. non-productive)
- sputum (colour (green/yellow infection, brown old blood, white notmal, red/pink new blood), smell, amount, texture (thick vs. viscous))
