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ABCDE of skin assessment - ANSWER✅✅✅•A: Asymmetry
•B: Irregular Borders
•C: changes in color
•D: Diameter over 1/4in or 6mm
•E: evolving/changing
Accommodation - ANSWER✅✅✅Look far away and then close up, pupils will constric
Acute otitis media with purulent effusion-ear - ANSWER✅✅✅-Commonly caused by bacterial
infection with S. penumoniae and H. influenza
-s/s: earache, fever, hearing loss. Eardrum reddens, loses its landmarks, and bulges laterally toward the
examiner
-hearing loss is conductive
Allen Test - ANSWER✅✅✅Occlude radial and ulnar arteries and then release one and visualize blood
return
Ankle-Brachial Index - ANSWER✅✅✅
Annular Lesions - ANSWER✅✅✅Lesions grouped in a circle
Arterial Vs. Venous - ANSWER✅✅✅
Astereognosis: - ANSWER✅✅✅Inability to recognize objects placed in the hand
Axillary Lymph Nodes - ANSWER✅✅✅Lateral
Pectoral (Anterior)
Subscapular (Posterior)
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Supraclavicular
Infraclavicular
Ballotment - ANSWER✅✅✅Leg extended, compress the suprapatellar pouch and then push the
patella sharply against the femur, watching for fluid returning to the pouch
Bartholin's Glands - ANSWER✅✅✅5 and 7
BMI Classifications - ANSWER✅✅✅Underweight: <18.5
Normal: 18.5-24.9
Overweight: 25.0-29.9
Obesity class
• I: 30.0-34.9
• II: 35.0-39.9
• III: at or over 40
Bronchial Sounds - ANSWER✅✅✅louder, harsher, and higher in pitch, with a short silence between
inspiratory and expiratory sounds. Expiratory sounds last longer than inspiratory sounds..
Bronchophony - ANSWER✅✅✅"ninety-Nine" - if louder than normal
Bronchovesicular Sounds - ANSWER✅✅✅with inspiratory and expiratory sounds about equal in
length, at times separated by a silent interval. Detecting differences in pitch and intensity is often easier
during expiration.
Brudzinski - ANSWER✅✅✅Pt supine, your hands behind pt's head and flex the neck forward, until
chin touches the chest if possible. Neck stiffness with resistance and flexion of hips and knees is a
positive sign. May be a sign of acute bacterial meningitis or subarachnoid hemorrhage
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