Cardiovascular
This is the angle that the patient's head should be raised in bed when inspecting the chest.
What is 30-45 degrees?
Capillary refill should occur in this time frame to be considered normal.
This is what we are evaluating for when we pinch the skin on someone's clavicle.
What is skin turgor/hydration?
This is the definition of an apical pulse.
These are the two broad types of heart murmurs.
What is innocent/physiological and abnormal/pathological?
These are the four valves in the heart.
What are the mitral, tricuspid, pulmonic and aortic valves?
These are the two great blood vessels in the neck.
What are carotid arteries and jugular veins?
This is the descriptor word for skin that looks dry, flakey and dull with a grayish white appearance.
What is ashen?
What are rate, rhythm, S1, S2, and murmurs?
This is the normal angle for nail beds.
What is the difference between the apical pulse rate and another pulse located on the body?
These are the names of the pulses behind your knee, beside your ankle, and on top of your foot respectively.
What are popliteal, posterior tibial, and dorsalis pedis pulses?
What is ecchymosis?
These are the rates for pulses with a description, starting with 0 all the way to 3+.
What is absent and cannot palpate, weak or thready and cannot be easily obliterated, normal, and bounding or full?
What is a bruit?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What is the angle of Louis or the manubriosternal angle?
1. pain after exercise
2. pain is reduced by raising feet and legs
3. pain is sharp and stabbing
1. arterial
2. venous
3. arterial
This is the definition of a primary lesion with two examples.
What is a lesion that occurs in reaction to the external or internal environment? Examples: macule, papule, patch, plaque, vesicle, nodule, pustule, or bulla.
This is the grading for pitting edema if the indentation remains in the tissue for approximately 1 minute.
What is 3+?
This is the name for excessive growth of hair in unusual places.
What is hirsutism?
These are the 5 landmarks when listening to the heart. Include the name of the landmark and the intercostal space.
What are the aortic area (2nd ICS), the pulmonic area (2nd ICS), Erb's point (3rd ICS), the tricuspid valve (4th ICS), and the mitral valve (5th ICS).
1. skin is hairless
2. skin is shiny
3. skin is mottled with brown pigmented areas
1. arterial
2. arterial
3. venous
This is the definition of secondary lesions. Give two examples.
What are changes in primary lesions or trauma or injury to the primary lesion? Examples: scale, crust, excoriation, erosion, ulcer, fissure, scar, keloid.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What is asymmetry, border, color, diameter, and evolution?