TERMINOLOGY
ASSESSMENT
HEAD,NECK, EARS & EYES
CARDIAC and MORE
MYSTERY CATEGORY
100
Occurs when pupils constrict and converge to focus on objects at close range.
What is accommodation?
100
Used to auscultate bruits
What is the bell of the stethoscope?
100
Occipital, submental, submandibular, preauricular
What are lymph nodes?
100
High pitched, discontinuous sounds similar to the sound produced by rubbing your hair between your fingers
What are crackles?
100
Otoscope
What is equipment used to assess the inner ear?
200
One side is the same as the other in regards to size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts.
What is symmetry?
200
A standardized, objective assessment that defines LOC by giving it a numeric value
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale
200
Translucent, pearly gray
What is a normal tympanic membrane?
200
Cardiac auscultation sites
What are aorta, pulmonic, Erb's, tricuspid and mitral?
200
"I have never done this before on a real patient"
What is, not the right thing to say when assessing your patient
300
Red reflex
What is seen when a direct light source is reflected off the retina?
300
Three questions to ask to assess A&O x 3
What is: "What is your name? Where are you? What day of the week is it?" Person, Place and Time
300
Note the rise of the soft palate and uvula
What is asking the patient to open mouth and say "ahh?"
300
Where you palpate the PMI
What is the 5th ICS at the midclavicular line?
300
Place cotton ball on various areas of patient's extremities.
What is assessing for light touch?
400
PERRLA
What are pupils, equal, round, reactive to light, accommodation?
400
Flaccid, Rigid, Spastic
What are abnormalities in muscle tone?
400
Chin to chest; ear to shoulder; turn head side-to-side
What are assessments of the cervical spine?
400
Transillumination
What is technique used to do a physical assessment of the sinuses
400
Measures hearing by: Air conduction (AC) and bone conduction (BC)?
What are Tuning Fork tests Rinne and Weber http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=how+to+assess+the+Weber+and+Rinne+test&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=2731F88BDC5A7693DB1E2731F88BDC5A7693DB1E
500
Includes the brain and spinal cord
What is the Central Nervous System?
500
upper extremities: flexed arms, wrist, fingers Adduction of arms Lower extremities: extension, internal rotation, plantar flexion Lesion to cerebral cortex
What is decorticate posturing?
500
This test evaluates the functioning of the six extraocular muscles of the eyes
What is the cardinal position/field of gaze?
500
S1 Closure of the mitral valve Signals the beginning of systole S2 Closure of the aortic valve
What are normal heart sounds
500
Palpate just below temporal artery; anterior to the tragus of the ear
What is how to assess the TMJ
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