USA--NU518 Assessment Unit 1
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MANTRELS - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔migration of pain, anorexia, nausea/vomiting,
tenderness in RLQ, rebound pain, elevation in temp, leukocytosis, shift to
the left, aka Alvarado score
Positive McBurney sign - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rebound tenderness over
McBurney's point in the RLQ suggest appendicitis
Iliopsoas Muscle Test - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔performed when you suspect
appendicitis because and inflamed appendix may cause irritation to the
iliopsoas muscle.
Sister Mary Joseph's nodule - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a pearl like, enlarged and
sometimes painful umbilical nodule
Borborygmi - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔long prolonged gurgles (stomach growlin)
Bruit - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a harsh or musical intermittent auscultatory sound,
which may reflect blood flow turbulence and indicate vascular disease.
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, Rigidity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is a boardlike hardness of the abdominal wall
overlying areas of peritoneal irritation
Acute pain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pain of short duration and has sudden onset in
association with injury, surgery, or an acute illness episode. Inflammation
helps sustain the pain response.
Chronic pain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pain that lasts several months or longer, and
is often sustained by a pathophysiologic process (e.g. joint disease, chronic
inflammation, headache, or cancer).
Neuropathic Pain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔long-term pain associated with damage
or dysfunction of the central or peripheral nervous system (e.g. amputation,
complex regional pain syndrome).
Scoliometer - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Measures degree of rotation of the spine to
screen for scoliosis.
Monofilament test - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Used to test for loss of protective
sensation, most commonly on the plantar surface of the foot.
Calipers - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Measure thickness of sub-q tissue
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2024/2025 Exam Questions and Verified
Answers | Already Graded A+
MANTRELS - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔migration of pain, anorexia, nausea/vomiting,
tenderness in RLQ, rebound pain, elevation in temp, leukocytosis, shift to
the left, aka Alvarado score
Positive McBurney sign - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rebound tenderness over
McBurney's point in the RLQ suggest appendicitis
Iliopsoas Muscle Test - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔performed when you suspect
appendicitis because and inflamed appendix may cause irritation to the
iliopsoas muscle.
Sister Mary Joseph's nodule - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a pearl like, enlarged and
sometimes painful umbilical nodule
Borborygmi - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔long prolonged gurgles (stomach growlin)
Bruit - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a harsh or musical intermittent auscultatory sound,
which may reflect blood flow turbulence and indicate vascular disease.
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 1
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Rigidity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔is a boardlike hardness of the abdominal wall
overlying areas of peritoneal irritation
Acute pain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pain of short duration and has sudden onset in
association with injury, surgery, or an acute illness episode. Inflammation
helps sustain the pain response.
Chronic pain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pain that lasts several months or longer, and
is often sustained by a pathophysiologic process (e.g. joint disease, chronic
inflammation, headache, or cancer).
Neuropathic Pain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔long-term pain associated with damage
or dysfunction of the central or peripheral nervous system (e.g. amputation,
complex regional pain syndrome).
Scoliometer - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Measures degree of rotation of the spine to
screen for scoliosis.
Monofilament test - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Used to test for loss of protective
sensation, most commonly on the plantar surface of the foot.
Calipers - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Measure thickness of sub-q tissue
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