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When a patient has a barrel chest, what should you look for symptoms/ diagnosis
wise?
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Patient will have chronic asthma, or emphysema (more common). It will be
easier for patient to inhale and harder to exhale.
,What should you expect during your assessment with a patient who has pneumonia?
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decreased breath sounds, crackles in affected lobes, and dullness to
percussion
What is a lung abscess?
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One lung has a pocket of infection
How would you go about determining whether a patient has a pleural friction rub or a
cardiac friction rub?
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Have patient hold there breath. If the noise disappears it is a pleural friction
rub. If it stays, it is a cardiac friction rub.
Your patient has decreased breathe sounds over a certain area, and is using an
incentive spirometer. What can you take away from the information provided?
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, Patient has atelectasis.
You are listening to lung sounds while auscultating over the trachea. What region is
your stethoscope in?
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bronchial
How do you palpate the spleen?
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reach across the body with left hand and place beneath the patient and
press upwards. press upward on abdomen and have patient take a deep
breath. usually not palpable.
What happens when listening to a split S1?
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Tricuspid and mitral valves are closing at different times
If your patient has CHF, what should you look for when taking chest sounds?
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, Muffled sounds, S4 may be present, pay close attention to lungs as well.
CHF is left sided heart failure.
If both pulmonary and aortic valves are in the process of closing, what sound is being
created?
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What is the Homan's sign?
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sharply dorsiflex the foot and if pain is caused in the calf it may be
indicative of a thrombosis
if there is a suspicion of a blood clot in lower leg, don't do if you know
there's a blood clot
this is the diagnostics stage only
What are the characteristics of Crohn's Disease?
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diarrhea, compromised nutritional status
1-125 of 125
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When a patient has a barrel chest, what should you look for symptoms/ diagnosis
wise?
Give this one a try later!
Patient will have chronic asthma, or emphysema (more common). It will be
easier for patient to inhale and harder to exhale.
,What should you expect during your assessment with a patient who has pneumonia?
Give this one a try later!
decreased breath sounds, crackles in affected lobes, and dullness to
percussion
What is a lung abscess?
Give this one a try later!
One lung has a pocket of infection
How would you go about determining whether a patient has a pleural friction rub or a
cardiac friction rub?
Give this one a try later!
Have patient hold there breath. If the noise disappears it is a pleural friction
rub. If it stays, it is a cardiac friction rub.
Your patient has decreased breathe sounds over a certain area, and is using an
incentive spirometer. What can you take away from the information provided?
Give this one a try later!
, Patient has atelectasis.
You are listening to lung sounds while auscultating over the trachea. What region is
your stethoscope in?
Give this one a try later!
bronchial
How do you palpate the spleen?
Give this one a try later!
reach across the body with left hand and place beneath the patient and
press upwards. press upward on abdomen and have patient take a deep
breath. usually not palpable.
What happens when listening to a split S1?
Give this one a try later!
Tricuspid and mitral valves are closing at different times
If your patient has CHF, what should you look for when taking chest sounds?
Give this one a try later!
, Muffled sounds, S4 may be present, pay close attention to lungs as well.
CHF is left sided heart failure.
If both pulmonary and aortic valves are in the process of closing, what sound is being
created?
Give this one a try later!
S2
What is the Homan's sign?
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sharply dorsiflex the foot and if pain is caused in the calf it may be
indicative of a thrombosis
if there is a suspicion of a blood clot in lower leg, don't do if you know
there's a blood clot
this is the diagnostics stage only
What are the characteristics of Crohn's Disease?
Give this one a try later!
diarrhea, compromised nutritional status
