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PHYSICAL EXAM

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show The process whereby the examiner uses the hands to feel for body movement, lumps, masses, and skin characteristics.  
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True or False : Palpation is always deep but never light.   show
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show Requires the examiner to place a finger firmly against a body part and strike that finger with a fingertip from the other hand.  
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show Flat, dull, resonant, hyperressonant, and tympanic.  
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Describe a flat percussion note.   show
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Describe a dull percussion note.   show
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show Over the liver or a tumor.  
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show It is loud, low in pitch, and has a long duration.  
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show Dull  
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show It is very loud, lower in pitch, longer in duration, and commonly heard over an emphysematous lung.  
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show It is loud and drumlike, with a high pitch.  
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show Inspection, Palpation, Percussion, and Auscultation.  
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Is auscultation a visual or physical technique?   show
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show A flat tone.  
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Observing respiration pattern of a patient is done in what step of the chest assessment process?   show
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show Subcutaneous Emphysema.  
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show Vesicular  
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While doing your inspection on a patient you notice his chest bows out at the sternum, similar to that of a pigeon. You would chart this as what kind of abnormality?   show
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Scoliosis is most often seen during an inspection of a patient. What is scoliosis?   show
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What are the lung sounds assessed by auscultation?   show
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show The palpation of the vibrations of the chest wall as a patient speaks.  
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show Bronchitis  
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What are the adventitious breath sounds most commonly heard during auscultation?   show
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show An increased work of breathing (WOB).  
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show The Glasgow Coma Scale  
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show Asleep, sluggish response to stimulus.  
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show Brain death  
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show Full consciousness.  
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What does P.E.A.R.L.A. stand for?   show
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show A decreasing level of consciousness.  
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show Resulting from a painful stimulus of a comatose patient with a low-level brain stem compression.  
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show Results when a painful stimulus is applied to a comatose patient with a lesion in the mesencephalic region of the brain.  
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Can medication cause pupils to dilate or constrict?   show
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show Cerebral edema and brain stem compression.  
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show They constrict.  
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show FALSE, Dilation and constriction happens in both eyes equally.  
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show Heart rate and rhythm, extra sounds, and murmurs.  
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True or False: Clubbing of fingers occurs with COP.   show
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In what condition does the chest wall move outward on expiration and inward on inspiration?   show
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show They are attempting to decrease the resistance to airflow through the nostrils.  
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Why may you see individuals with emphysema using pursed-lip breathing during the expiratory phase?   show
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A teenager that has been in a car accident is admitted to the hospital. The first thing you notice is that her right pupil is dilated and the left is constricted. What can you determine may be wrong with her from this?   show
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show To make sure the lungs are expanding equally.  
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Define stridor.   show
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What kind of sound can crackles be classified as?   show
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The chest wall over laying the heart is known as what?   show
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show Interspaces  
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How are normal heart sounds classified?   show
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When you hear S1 (lub) what exactly is happening to the heart?   show
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show Dub  
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show Is very faint and may not be heard in all positions.  
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show Blowing, rasping, harsh, coarse, grating, whistling, or musical.  
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show Crackles (Rales)  
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show The lung tissue that is normally aerated is "made solid" by filling with fluid, mucus, pus, or cellular debris.  
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show A voice sound that is elicited when the examiner auscultates over as area of suspected consolidation and asks the patient to say the words ninety-nine.  
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show There is consolidation in the lungs, because normally this sound is muffled.  
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show There is consolidation in the lungs.  
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A respiration pattern faster than 20 breaths per minute is clinically called what?   show
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In children stridor is commonly associated with what?   show
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show Pneumothorax, atelectasis, lung resection, or main stem intubation.  
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show Examiner should place their thumbs along each coastal margin at the patients back.  
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What is the term used to describe diminished skin color accompanying anemia?   show
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While examining a patient you notice plethora at the skin surface. Why would plethora occur and what can you assume the patients condition is?   show
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show In the sclera of the eyes.  
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show Forward curvature of the spine.  
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show Lordosis  
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show Kyphosis  
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show They extend above above the scapulae on both sides of the thorax. (Not on scapulae, listen between scapulae and spine)  
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Abnormalities of the thorax can be significant factors in what kinda of disease?   show
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show 3  
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show 2  
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show 10  
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Name the segments of the right upper lobe of the lung?   show
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You over hear a Dr. say the word Lingula. You can assume he is talking about which lung?   show
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Where is the 4th intercostal space in a male?   show
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What muscles are normally used for ventilation?   show
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show Kyphoscoliosis  
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While doing palpation for tracheal positioning you notice the trachea is shifted. What can be the reasoning for this shift?   show
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How many TRUE ribs does the normal human body have?   show
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show Ribs 8-12  
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Which ribs are called the FLOATING ribs?   show
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show Helps to detect pressure changes within the right atrium.  
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Using the Ramsay Sedation Scale you chart the patient's response as responding to commands only. What level is this according to the scale?   show
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What sound you listen for while performing a cardiac auscultation?   show
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Where can extra heart sounds S3 and S4 be heard?   show
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show Cyanosis, Pallor, Plethora, and Jaundice.  
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A patient has a breathing rate lower than 12 breaths per min. the term for this is?   show
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Define Paltypnea.   show
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show When an individual must sit or stand in order to breath.  
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A patient tells you he is most comfortable sleeping in a chair. This is most likely associated with which breathing pattern?   show
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What disease is often found with an Orthopnea breathing pattern?   show
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show Cheyne-Stokes breathing  
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show Pectus Carinatum  
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show It is depressed and deviated somewhat like a funnel. (A funnel shaped sternum.)  
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A tympanic tone has what kind of duration?   show
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show One or two blows.  
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show Upper part. Larynx and trachea.  
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A fingers that appear full, fleshy, and vascular are termed?   show
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A yellowish skin color is associated with what condition?   show
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A blueish skin color is associated with what condition?   show
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show It would be at the 6th rib  
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