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assessment techniques - ANSWER ✔✔inspection, palpation,
percussion, auscultation
ABCDE - ANSWER ✔✔Asymmetry, Border, Color, Diameter,
Elevation
skin assessment - ANSWER ✔✔color, moisture, temperature,
texture, turgor, vascularity changes, external variables, edema, lesions
Skin Function - ANSWER ✔✔Skin is waterproof, protective, and
adaptive
•Protection from environment
•Prevents penetration
,•Perception
•Temperature regulation
•Identification
•Communication
•Wound repair
•Absorption and excretion
•Production of vitamin D
primary skin lesions - ANSWER ✔✔The immediate result of a specific
causative factor; primary lesions develop on previously unaltered skin
Macules,Papules,Patches,Plaques,Nodules,Wheals,Tumors,Urticaria
(hives),
Vesicles,Cysts,Bullas,Pustules
secondary skin lesions - ANSWER ✔✔changes in the appearance of
the primary lesion and can occur with normal progression of a disease
•Debris on skin surface
(Crusts,Scales)
,•Break in continuity of skin surface
(Fissures,Erosions,Ulcers,Excoriations,Scars,Atrophic scars,
Lichenifications,
Keloids).
jaundice - ANSWER ✔✔A yellowish skin color indicates rising
amounts of bilirubin in the blood
yellow in sclera, hard palate, mucous membranes, then over skin
Vascular Lesions - ANSWER ✔✔Lesions of the blood vessel
Hemangiomas,
telangiectasies, purpuric lesions,
Lesions caused by trauma or abuse (bruises)
Hemangiomas - ANSWER ✔✔Caused by a benign proliferation of
blood vessels in the dermis.
•Port-wine stain (nevus flammeous)
•Strawberry mark (immature hemangioma)
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, •Cavernous hemangioma (mature)
Telangiectases - ANSWER ✔✔Spidery red skin lesions caused by
dilated blood vessels
•Spider or star angioma
•Venous lake
Purpuric lesions - ANSWER ✔✔Purpura; lesions resulting from
hemorrhages into the skin
•Petechiae
•Purpura
Lesions caused by trauma or abuse - ANSWER ✔✔•Pattern injury
•Hematoma
•Contusion (bruise)
Pattern injury - ANSWER ✔✔Bruise you can feel that elevated the
skin is seen in swelling.
Hematoma - ANSWER ✔✔A localized swelling filled with blood