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-reduce anxiety
-alert patient to your goal and what/how you will be proceeding
-be systematic in your approach
-good lighting
-tailor assessment to developmental status and needs |
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-move from head to toe
-patient: supine position
-examiner:right side: jugular veins on right are more reliable for estimating venous pressure; apical pulse is on the right side; right kidney is more palpable |
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confirms points noted by inspection by using your sense of touch
assesses: texture
temperature
moisture
organ location and size
swelling
vibration or pulsation
rigidity or spasticity
crepitation
presence of lumps or masses
presence of tenderness or pain
-palpate tender areas LAST
"say99" |
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1. inspection
2. palpation
3. percussion
4. auscultation
order is different in the abdomen-inspect-auscultate-percussion-palpate |
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concentrated watching
always inspect first-general survey, each system
good lighting is essential |
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-tapping the person's skin with sharp strokes to assess underlying structures
-strokes yield a palpable vibration and a characteristic sound that depicts the location, size, and density of underlying organs
INDIRECT is used more often |
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hyperresonnance (abn lungs)
resonance (lung)
tympany (stomach)
dullness (dense organ)
flatness (thigh, bone, tumow) |
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CONFIRMATION
-listening to sounds produced
-most sounds are soft and need to be channeled via a stethoscope
-stethoscope does not magnify sound but blocks extraneous room sounds |
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funnels light into ear canal and onto tympanic membrane
base serves as power source |
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illuminates internal eye structures
enables you to look through the pupil at the fundus of the eye |
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double-based metal nasal spectrum
penlight used or light in instrument
used to view lower and middle turbinates and nasal mucosa |
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| used to assess nutritional status by measuring thickness in mm of subcu fat |
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used to assess female reproductive system
available in several sizes |
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a protractor with a movable and a fixed arm (axis))
used to assess joint motion |
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battery-operated
consists of opthalmoscope handle and a translluminator head
produces red glow when pressed against a body tissue in a dark room
used to assess sinus contents-air, tissue, fluid |
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