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| 4 Basic Assessment Techniques |
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| Inspection, Palpation, Percussion, and Ausculation |
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| visual examination of the body, including body movements and posture. Maintain modesty and may use instruments like penlight |
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| using the hands to feel texture, size, shape, consistency, pulsations, and location of certain parts of the body and assess if tender or painful. Gloves worn when palpating mucous membranes |
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| Palmar Surfaces of fingers and finger pads |
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| are more sensitive than the fingertips |
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| Is the dorsal or ulnar surface of hand better for temp checking? |
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| Pressing up to a depth of 4 cm |
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| evaluates the size, borders, and consistency of internal organs, detect tenderness, and to determine the extent of fluid in a body cavity |
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| What are the percussion tones in the stomach? |
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| Percussion Tones in Lungs |
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| Percussion tones in the Bone and Muscle |
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| Percussion tones in Viscera and Liver Borders |
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| Percussion tones in Air trapped in lungs(emphysema) |
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| act of listening to sounds within the body |
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| used for ausculation to block out extraneous sounds when evaluating the condition of the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and intestines. |
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| Characteristics of sounds heard by ausculation |
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| Intensity, Pitch, Duration of Sound Vibrations, Quality |
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| louudness of sound. soft, medium, or loud |
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| frequency or number of sounds waves generated per second. high pitched is high frequencies |
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| Duration of Sound Vibrations |
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| 2 most common thermometers |
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| electronic and tympanic and more increasingly tympanic |
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| 2 most common thermometers in children |
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| Pacifer and Chemical Dot Thermometers |
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| noninvasive blood pressure monitor |
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| electronic device attached to the BP cuff |
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| What happens if the cuff is too wide? |
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| 40% of circumference of limb |
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| to identify the arterial oxygen saturation in the blood. finger |
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| Snellan's Chart is hung at a distance of ? FT |
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| Top and Bottom Number of Snellan's Chart |
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| Top-distance btwn the client and the chart. Bottom-distance at which a person with normal vision should be able to read that line of the chart |
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| external auditory canal and tympanic membrane |
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| Disposable one cud be used on an infant or to measure extremities |
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| Auditory screening and vibratory assessment |
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| Test deep tendon reflexes |
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| amplify sounds difficult to hear |
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| Determine degree of flexion or extension of a joint |
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| perform basic screening for hearing acuity |
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| Test for sensation on lower extremities |
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| to differentiate the characteristics of tissue, fluid, and air within a specific body cavity |
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| detect fungal infections or to detect corneal abrasions |
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