NR-509 Advanced Physical Assessment
NR509 Week 5 Quiz
Four step order for abdominal exam
Correct Answer:
Inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpitation
What percussion sound does a stomach, small intestine and large intestine give
Correct Answer:
Tympanic
What percussion sound does a liver spleen, and occasionally large intestine, with large amounts of fecal matter give
Correct Answer:
Dull
What percussion sound do bones give?
Correct Answer:
Flatness
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What percussion sound does an adult lung sound like?
Correct Answer:
Resonance
What percussion sound a little child lung give
Correct Answer:
Hyperresonance
Visceral pain
Correct Answer:
Is dull, poorly localized felt midline, occurs when noxious stimuli affect small intestine. Tissue congestion, and inflammation sensitizes nerve endings, and decreases pain threshold.
Parietal/somatic pain
Correct Answer:
Sharp and tense, discrete and localized, tends to aggravate and coughing and movement, give me a study, aching, aggravated pain. Pain as a result of ischemia inflammation and stretching of the parietal peritoneum
Referred pain
Correct Answer:
Many characteristics of parietal pain but felt in remote areas, supplied by the same dermatome as diseased organ. Results from shared central pathways for afferent neurons from different sites.
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