A & P
This organ sits in the RUQ
What is the Liver?
You should stand on this side of the patient in order to inspect the patient's abdomen.
What is the patient's right side?
True or False: auscultation is performed prior to percussion and palpation.
What is True?
The normal sound heard when percussing the abdomen.
This is how deep you palpate for light palpation
What is <1 cm?
The three sections of the colon
What is ascending, transverse, and descending?
These are the four different contour shapes.
What is flat, rounded, scaphoid, and protuberant?
To best auscultate the abdomen, begin with the stethoscope placed in the RLQ and move in this direction.
What is clockwise?
The expected sound heard when percussing the abdomen with ascites.
What is dull?
This is how deep you palpate for deep palpation
What is 5-8 cm?
The pancreas sits behind this organ
What is the stomach?
True or False: Linear striae is an expected finding.
What is True?
In order to determine a "silent abdomen," you must listen for this amount of time.
What is 5 minutes?
These two tests are performed to differentiate ascites from gaseous distention.
What is the fluid wave test and the shifting dullness test?
This is a test performed when we are trying to assess if the patient has peritoneal inflammation due to appendicitis.
What is Rebound Tenderness (Blumberg's Sign)?
The name of the membrane that lines the abdominal wall
What is the peritoneum?
An abnormal finding that occurs when a weak abdominal wall causes intestines to protrude.
What is a hernia?
A reason for hypoactive bowel sounds
What is Inflammation of the peritoneum (peritonitis)
OR
Post abdominal surgery
The reason tympany should be the normal percussion sound in the abdomen.
What is air rises to the surface when patient is supine?
This is palpable during routine exam and feels like a pulsating mass.
What is an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)?
Name the 4 quadrants and name one organ that is found in each.
What is RLQ (cecum, appendix), RUQ (liver, gallbladder), LUQ (stomach, spleen), LLQ (descending colon)?
A pulsating mass above the umbilicus indicates this could be present.
A reason for hyperactive bowel sounds
What is Increased gastric motility- diarrhea, anxiety, bowel inflammation
Sharp pain when percussing along the CVA occurs with inflammation of this organ(s)
What are the kidneys?
We perform this type of palpation is order to form an overall impression of the skin surface and superficial musculature of the abdomen.
What is light palpation?