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| Describe the meaning of the following percussion sounds... resonance, dullness, tympany, flatness, hyperresonance |
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| resonance = air filled, dullness = solid, tympany = hollow, flatness = dense, hyperresonance = too much air |
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| What makes of the percussion tones? |
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| pitch, intensity, duration, quality |
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| What is a general survey? |
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| first few moments of contact with the patient (first overall impression) |
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| What do you observe in a general survey? |
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| body structure, mobility, behavior, physical appearance |
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| What is it important to know when observing a client in a general survey? |
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| the norms (to have something to compare it to) |
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| What are life span considerations during a general survey? |
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| development, culture, lifespan |
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| What are anthropometric measurements? |
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| a method of measuring the human body and assessing nutritional status as well as growth and development |
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| When are you considered overweight? obese? |
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| overweight > 10% ideal body weight; obese >20% ideal body weight |
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| What are normal colors of skin? |
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| pink/white-ruddy pink, yellow-olive, ivory-deep brown, brown-black, blue-black |
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| What abnormal colors of skin? |
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| pallor, jaundice, cyanosis, erythema |
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| paleness due to decreased skin to oxygen |
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| blue skin (usually starts at toes) |
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| redness of the skin usually due to CO poisening |
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| orange color (usually indicates liver problems) |
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| What do you inspect/palpate on the skin? |
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| color, texture, thickness, moisture, mobility/turgor, temperature, intactness/presence or absence of lesions |
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| 1- color change, flat, circumscribed, less than 1 cm (ex: freckle) |
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| macules larger than 1 cm (ex: measles) |
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| solid, elevated, circumscribe, less than 1 cm (ex: wart/mole) |
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| coalased papules (surface elevation greater than 1 cm) (ex: psoriasis) |
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| solid, elevated hard or soft, larger than 1 cm, may extend deeper into dermis than papule (ex: RA, looks encapsulated and well-defined) |
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| larger than a few cm in diameter, firm or soft, deep into dermis, encapsulated |
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| superficial, raised, transient, erythematous, irregular shape (ex. mosquito bite) |
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| circumscribed, elevated, pus filled cavity (ex: acne) |
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| encapsulated, fluid-filled cavity, skin tensely elevated, in dermis or subq layer (in moister areas) |
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| elevated cavity up to 1 cm, clear fluid, superficial (ex: chicken pox, small blisters) |
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| larger than 1 cm, elevated cavity, clear fluid, superficial (ex: big blister) |
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| secondary lesion - thickened, fried out exudates of vesicles/pustules (ex: scab) |
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| superficial abrasion, sometimes crusted, scratches from intense itching (often self inflicted) |
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| linear crack down into dermis |
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| compact, flakes of skin from shedding excess keratin cells |
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| deeper depression in dermis, irregular shape (area of reddened tissue surrounds it) |
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| connective tissue that replaces normal tissue when skin lesion is repaired |
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| tiny hemmorages (less than 2 mm), round, discrete, dark red/purple/brown |
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| confluent (run together) petechia |
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| "bruise" - large patch of capillary bleeding into tissue |
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| elevated bruise (enough bleeding into tissue to elevate skin) |
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| blood vessel difficulties (spider angioma, hemangioma) |
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| fiery, red, star-shaped, with solid circular center |
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| raised red/bluish area of blood vessels |
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| baldness (occurs almost always from hair curlers) |
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| ABC's of malignant melanoma |
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| asymmetrical, border irregularity, color, diameter > 6mm, elevation/enlargement |
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| What is a lesion of the nail bed? what does it indicate? |
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| pigment bands; melanoma (normal in darker skinned people though) |
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| normal angle of nails? abnormal? |
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| what does clubbing of nails indicate? |
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| what does unevenness of toenails indicate? |
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