.(including aphasia) - Answer -Blocking (sudden interruption midsentence)
.• Asthma. - Answer -retraction of muscles if severe, hyperresonance on percussion,
wheezing, coug common withthick mucoid secreations.
.• Carcinoma: - Answer -common on sides and underneath tongue
.• Deep vein thrombosis (DVT): - Answer -: can occur anywhere, usually unilateral,
erythemea, pain, warm , swelling
.• Evaluating diagnostic tests - Answer -validity and sensitivity and specificity
.• Heart valve pathology: mitral stenosis - Answer -opening snap
.• Pharynx: - Answer -: CN X say ahh
.• Pneumonia - Answer -Retraction of muscles if severe, dullnes on percussion, crackles
on auscultation,
.• Screening for cardiovascular (CV) risk factors: - Answer -BMI >25, smoking, inactive,
diet high in fat and sodium, total cholesteroal >200, BP>120>80, fasting glucose >100,
African American, family history, AFIB
.• silent patient - Answer -allow for reflection
.• Techniques of examination (including percussion) - Answer -Inspect, palpation (chest
expansion, crepitus, fremitus(normal vibrations). Percussion;tympanic, hyper resonant,
dull, auscultate=breath sounds Bronchophy is positive if abnormally loud when they say
99
.0 tonsil grading - Answer -absent
.1 tonsil grading - Answer -normal barely visible
.2 tonsil grading - Answer -tongue tissue not beyond tonsillar pillars (normal)
.25 year old patient is doing a stress test, her HR shows 25 each time what would the
practitioner question? - Answer -validity
, .2nd most common skin cancer is - Answer -squamous cell carcinoma( Smooth/firm
border)
.3 tonsil grading - Answer -up to 75% airway occluded (not normal)
.3rd most common skin cancer - Answer -melanoma
.4 tonsil grading - Answer -More than 75% of airway occluded, almost
touching(abnormal)
.51year old male who is moderatly overweight stats that he is having chest pain after
tennis with his friend, later in the day a 29 year old reports that her chest feels hot and
tight and she can get stressed out, the provider recommends an immediate evaluation
for the professor and not the college student why? - Answer -Positive predictive value of
an observation is higher in a group with a higher prevalance of disease
.58year old carpenter presents for physical, the practitioner notes there is a systolic
murmur on auscultation of the aorta. Why does she not conclude the patient has aortic
stenosis? - Answer -Systolic murmurs have high sensitivity but low specificity for aortic
stenosis
.65 year old retired pilot visits the clinic because of a recurrent headach and dizziness
for the last 2 weeks with occasional numbness, which should be the systems examined
in the clinicians focused assessment? - Answer -nervous
.A vibrating tuning fork placed on the head sets the bone of the skull into vibration and
stimulates the - Answer -cochlea
.Acne vulgaris is what? - Answer -associatied with blocked sebaceous
glands,stress,humidity, and heavy sweating
.Actinic Cheilitis is a precancerous condition that results from - Answer -excessive
exposure to sunlight on lower lip
.Acute and chronic pain - Answer -Acute pain lasts less than 3-6 months Chronic pain is
not related to cancer or other medical conditions and last more than 3-6 months.
.acute arterial occlusion - Answer -the sudden occlusion of arterial blood flow
.Affect is - Answer -acute/ variable
.Alopecia areata is? - Answer -patchy hair loss without associaited skin changes
.An abnormal P wave in an echocardiogram demenstrates - Answer -bilateral
enlargement