NBCE part 4-case history,physical exam questions and answers

nerve CORRECT ANSWERS: type of pain that is sharp, stabbing, or shooting-described as burning or pins and needles bone CORRECT ANSWERS: type of pain that is poorly localized and deep/boring visceral CORRECT ANSWERS: type of pain that is cramping, colicky, dull/achy- sometimes difficult to describe muscular CORRECT ANSWERS: type of pain that is dull and achy- at times burning vascular CORRECT ANSWERS: type of pain that is cold, pulsatile/throbbing MI CORRECT ANSWERS: what do you suspect if patient describes chest pain as crushing, squeezing or like a heavy weight on top of chest aortic aneurysms CORRECT ANSWERS: what do you suspect if patient has a tearing or ripping pain gallbladder CORRECT ANSWERS: organ involved with pain after eating fatty/fried foods, refers to right shoulder shingles CORRECT ANSWERS: what should you suspect if pain that is burning,tingling, numb that has unilateral rash after a few days of pain disc CORRECT ANSWERS: pain worse with bending forward, twisting, lifting, sitting- numbness, tingling, muscle weakness arthritis CORRECT ANSWERS: pain worse in morning and inactivity, joint pain/stiffness- activity makes pain better brain tumor CORRECT ANSWERS: confusion, disorientation, deep pain in head MS CORRECT ANSWERS: loss of vision, electric shock sensations with movements of head, unsteady gait, dizziness, fatigue, weakness of limbs trigeminal neuralgia CORRECT ANSWERS: sudden sharp, stabbing, knife like pain on one side of face temporal arteritis CORRECT ANSWERS: throbbing, pulsatile pain in temporal region with possible loss of vision