Techniques & Equipment
Breast and Axilla
Breast and Axilla
This type of percussion involves striking your non-dominant hand with the fist of your dominant hand.
What is blunt percussion?
This percussion technique is used for patient's who report findings of sinusitis.
This "pearly gray" membrane isn't an instrument but it does vibrate.
What is the tympanic membrane?
These breath sounds are typically heard in patient's during an acute asthma attack.
What are wheezes?
This is the name for the 5th intercostal space at the MCL.
What is the PMI?
This is a loud, high-pitched, drum-like tone heard on percussion.
What is tympany?
It is normal for this gland that regulates metabolism to enlarge during pregnancy.
What is the thyroid gland?
This is the documentation for someone who can see at 20 feet what a person with normal vision sees at 40 feet.
What is 20/40?
This is the term for positional dyspnea that worsens when lying down.
What is orthopnea?
This piece of equipment is used to assess weak pulses.
What is a doppler?
After obtaining a health history, the nurse begins to ask more specific questions in this portion of the exam.
What is the focused interview?
This is the "B" portion of the ABCDE rule of skin assessment.
What are irregular borders?
This is the best way to test visual accommodation.
What is watching them look at a near object?
This is the name for the coarse, crackling sensation felt on palpation of the chest wall.
What is crepitus?
This abnormal finding on inspection of the neck may indicate fluid overload and heart failure.
What is JVD?
Women should perform this exam monthly on the same day.
What is a breast self exam?
This is a solid elevated lesion that is less than 1cm in diameter.
What is a papule?
This structure connects the tongue to the bottom of mouth.
What is the frenulum?
These are low-pitched, continuous snoring sounds heard on auscultation of fluid blocked airways.
What are sonorous rhonchi?
This is a palpable vibration felt through the chest wall is over the heart.
What is a thrill?
Pardon my french but this is a disorder of the breast tissue that gives the breast a citrus peel appearance.
What is peau d'orange?
This is a severe, unilateral headache with no aura and accompanies nasal congestion.
What is a cluster headache?
This test is done by placing a tuning fork in the middle of the anterior scalp.
What is the Weber test?
Pleural inflammation will produce this sound.
What is a friction rub?
What is the popliteal pulse?