Special Test Flashcards
Cardio Special Tests?
- Homan’s (DVT)
- Thrombosis (DVT)
- Pitting Edema
Respiratory?
- Percussion
* Egophony (“E” sounds like “A’ = consolidation)
Neuro?
- Romberg
- Cold/ Heat sensitivity (No need if somatosensation is intact)
- Stereognosis
- Graphesthesia
- Somatosensation (Sharp vs. Dull)
- 2 point discrimination
- DTRs
- Brudzinski’s (Bend that head)
- Kernig’s (Knee)
Male GU?
- Cremasteric (test torsion)
- Prehn sign (epididymitis)
- Inguinal hernia cough
- Milk the shaft for discharge
- Tender prostate (prostatitis)
- Firm or enlarged prostate nontender (BPH or cancer)
GI?
- Cullen and Grey Turner (pancreatitis)
- Murphy sign (cholecystitis)
- Laying down increases pain (pancreatitis)
- Mcburney’s Point (Appendix)
- Iliopsoas and obturator (Appendix)
- Rovsings sign (Appendix)
- Kehrs Sign (splenic rupture)
Audio?
- Weber (whether it’s the left or right) - sensorineural
* Rinne (rinne under the pinne)
Altered mental status?
- Glucose
- EKG
- UA
Chest pain?
- Glucose
- EKG
- UA
Respiratory Distress?
- O2 Sats
- EKG
- Glucose
- UA
- CBC
Mental Status for intubation test?
GCS
GCS Important numbers?
3 - lowest possible
8 - 8 or less intubate
15 - Eyes open spontaneously, A&Ox3, Obeys commands
Shoulder Impingement
NEER
Hawkins (reinforces NEER)
Cross-Body
Rotator Cuff
Hawkins (Pain in subacromial space)
Empty Can
Drop Arm Test
Gerber Lift off
Biceps Tendonitis
Resisted Elbow flexion
Supination resisted
Speed’s
Yergason (Flex elbow 90 with pronation, try to supinate with resistance and palpate bicipital groove)
Dislocation
Apprehension
Jobe relocation (apply anterior stability)
Sulcus (sublux of humeral head)
Jerk
Shoulder Instability
Sulcus
AC Injury / Clavicle
Cross Body
Labral Tear
Obrien's (pain worse with thumb down) - SLAP Sulcus (inferior) Jerk (posterior) Apprehension (anterior) Jobe relocation (anterior)