100 Top Secrets (10) Flashcards

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Beck triad

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JVD, muffled heart sounds, and hypotension (cardiac tamponade)

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Brudzinski sign

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Pain on neck flexion with meningeal irritation (meningitis)

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Charcot triad

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Fever/chills, jaundice, right upper quadrant pain (cholangitis)

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Chvostek sign

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Tapping on facial nerve elicits tetany (hypocalcemia)

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Courvoisier sign

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Painless, palpable gallbladder plus jaundice (pancreatic cancer)

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Cullen sign

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Bluish discoloration of periumbilical area (pancreatitis with retroperitoneal hemorrhage)

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Cushing reflex

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Hypertension, bradycardia, and irregular respirations (high intracranial pressure)

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Grey Turner sign

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Bluish discoloration of flank (pancreatitis with retroperitoneal hemorrhage)

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Homans sign

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Calf pain with forced dorsiflexion of the foot (DVT)

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Kehr sign

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Pain of left shoulder (ruptured spleen)

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Leriche syndrome

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Claudication and atrophy of the buttocks with impotence (aortoiliac occlusive disease)

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McBurney sign

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Tenderness at McBurney point (appendicitis)

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Murphy sign

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Arrest of inspiration during palpation under rib cage on right (cholecystitis)

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Ortolani sign/test

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Abducting an infant’s flexed hips causes a palpable/audible click (congenital hip dysplasia)

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Prehn sign

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Elevation of a painful testicle relieves pain (epididymitis)

Pain stays the same or worsens with testicular torsion

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Rovsing sign

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Pushing your hand on left lower quadrant then releasing your hand produces pain at McBurney point (appendicitis)

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Tinel sign

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Tapping volar surface of wrist elicits paresthesias (carpal tunnel syndrome)

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Trousseau sign

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Pumping of blood pressure cuff causes carpopedal spasm (tetany from hypocalcemia)

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Virchow triad

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Stasis, endothelial damage, and hypercoagulability (risks for DVT)

20
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Babinski sign

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Stroking bottom of foot yields extension of big toe and fanning of other toes is upper motor neuron lesion