Assess This
On the periphery
Take a deep breathe
The eyes have it
Give me some skin
100
orthostatic vital signs, review of medications, assessment of gait and balance
What is screenings for the older adult
100
symptoms of claudication
What is an assessment of peripheral vascular disease?
100
decreased chest wall compliance
What is an age related change in the lungs?
100
blurring of near vision
What is an age related change in vision
100
placing the back of the hands on the forehead
What is the correct technique for assessing temperature of the skin?
200
Three item recall
What is a brief screening measure to assess memory?
200
ulcerated lesion near the medial malleolus surrounded by hyperpigmented skin
What is venous insufficiency?
200
crackles (rales), wheezes, or rhonchi that clears with a cough
What is bronchitis?
200
a triangular thickening of the bulbar conjunctiva across the surface of the cornea
What is pterygium?
200
A hard mass midline in the upper palate
What is torus palatinus?
300
Claudication, diminished pulses, pallor of the foot when raised to 60 degrees for one minute
What is chronic arterial insufficiency?
300
Dividing the systolic BP the dorsalis pedis by the systolic BP at the brachial artery
What is ankle-brachial index?
300
a condition that produces a hyperresonant sound
What is a pneumothorax?
300
a sudden painless unilateral loss of vision
What is retinal detachment?
400
thin, shiny, atrophic skin
What is a sign of chronic arterial insufficiency?
400
bounding pulses at the radial and brachial locations
What is 3+ pulse on a scale of 1 to 3?
400
a lung sound that is louder and higher in pitch with a short silence between inspiration and expiration
What is bronchial breathe sounds?
400
A sudden painful unilateral loss of vision
What is optic neuritis?
400
Beau's lines are a transverse groove across the nails
What is a sign of a previous illness?
500
Calf pain when walking
What is homan's sign, or a sign of arterosclerosis?
500
a palpable pulse in the neck
What is the carotid pulse?
500
the most likely explanation for shortness of breathe, crackles (rales) in the lower third of the chest
What is heart failure
500
ability to see at 20 feet what a person with normal vision can see at 100 feet
What is visual acuity of 20/100?
500
A rash that is raised and appears and disappears in various locations
What is urticarial?
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