TERMINOLOGY
Occurs when pupils constrict and converge to focus on objects at close range.
What is accommodation?
Occipital, submental, submandibular, preauricular
What are lymph nodes?
High pitched, discontinuous sounds similar to the sound produced by rubbing your hair between your fingers
What are crackles?
Otoscope
What is equipment used to assess the inner ear?
One side is the same as the other in regards to size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts.
What is symmetry?
Name three things that are part of the general survey.
What is the gait, speech, hygeine, balance, posture...etc.
Cardiac auscultation sites
What are aorta, pulmonic, Erb's, tricuspid and mitral?
"I have never done this before on a real patient"
What is, not the right thing to say when assessing your patient
Where is the best place to assess for jaundice?
What is the sclera?
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
Note the rise of the soft palate and uvula
What is asking the patient to open mouth and say "ahh?"
Where you palpate the PMI
What is the 5th ICS at the midclavicular line?
Place cotton ball on various areas of patient's extremities.
What is assessing for light touch?
Pitting edema is graded in this way and what is the corresponding the mm depth?
what is 1+=2mm
2+=4mm
3+=6mm
4+=8mm?
Chin to chest; ear to shoulder; turn head side-to-side
What are assessments of the cervical spine/neck ROM?
8 front 8 back 1 RML. Not over bone or breast tissue.
What is auscultate lung sounds?
Dorsalis pedis pulses are found where?
Happens in the elderly when cervical region develops a "hunch".
What is kyphosis?
What s/s indicate insufficiency? Hint the 5 p's
What is pain, pallor, pulselessness, parasthesias, paralysis
What chart tests vision?
What is the Snellen Chart?
S1 Closure of the mitral valve Signals the beginning of systole S2 Closure of the aortic valve
What are normal heart sounds
What pulse is found behind the medial malleolus?