Vital Organs
The filling phase of the heart.
What is Diastole?
This organ is primarily responsible for filtering blood and is located in the LUQ.
What is spleen?
Acronym for assessing an extremity, and what it stands for.
What is CMTS (Color, Motion, Temperature, Sensation)?
AxOx4 stands for this
What is Alert and Oriented to Person, Place, Time, Situation
This term describes yellow discoloration of the skin.
What is jaundice?
Listen for this abnormal sound in the carotids by having patient inhale...exhale and hold
What is a Bruit?
Correct sequence to assessing the abdomen.
What is Inspection, Auscultation, Percussion, Palpation
Bilateral Lower Extremity Edema seen in this condition
What is Heart Failure?
Test done by having patient stand stationary with eyes closed for 20 seconds.
What is the Romberg test?
Stage of skin ulcer where bone is seen?
What is Stage 4?
Located at the Left 5th intercostal space, mid-clavicular line
What is the Point of Maximum Impulse/Apex/Apical Pulse/Mitral?
This sign indicates cholecystitis when pain occurs during inspiration while palpating RUQ.
What is Murphy's Sign?
Symptoms include Unilateral Edema, Calf Tenderness, Redness.
What is DVT?
Type of gait where patient has stooped posture, rigidity and shuffling gait.
What is Parkinson's Gait?
Cause of decreased elastin, collagen, muscle tone, and melanocytes.
What is Aging?
This maneuver is used to assess for kidney tenderness.
What is Costal Vertebral Tenderness/Indirect Fist Percussion?
This number in the Ankle Brachial Index indicates presence of PAD.
What is less than 0.9
Type of posturing due to a brain stem lesion with extended arms and legs.
What is decerebrate rigidity?
Term for unusual, excessive hair growth.
What is hirsutism?
Sound made from closure of Aortic and Pulmonic Valves.
What is S2?
Non-tarry black stool seen when a patient is taking this medication.
What is Iron Supplements?
Condition that causes these Signs and Symptoms in the lower extremities including: pain in dependent position, brown pigmentation, swelling, hair growth.
What is Venous Insufficiency?
Name for Cranial Nerve that Controls the Lateral Movement of the Eyes
What is the Abducens nerve/ Cranial Nerve 6?
This term describes excessive sweating.
What is diaphoresis?