Common Medical Signs Flashcards
Babinski Sign
Extension and spreading of the toes when the bottom of the foot is stroked
-Nervous system lesion
Battles sign
Bluish hue to bony prominence behind the ear
-Basilar skull fracture
Beck Triad
Cardiac tamponade
-JVD
-Muffled heart tones
-Hypotension
Braxton Hicks
“False Labor”
-Intermittent contraction of the uterus after third month of pregnancy
Brudzinski’s Sign
Meningitis
-Flexion of the neck result is flexion of the hip
Coopernail’s Sign
Pelvic Fracture
-Ecchymosis on the perineum and around the scrotum or labia
Cullen’s sign
Bluish discoloration around the umbilicus
Cushing’s Triad
Increased ICP
-Hypertension
-Irregular respirations
-Bradycardia
-Widened pulse pressure
Grey-Turner’s
-Pancreatitis
Discoloration of the skin around the flank
Hamman’s Sign
-Mediastinal Emphysema
Crunching sound heard with asynchronous heart beat
Kehr’s Sign
-Splenic rupture
Left shoulder pain
Kernig’s Sign
-Meningitis
Pain or resistance to knee extension when the hip is flex at 90 degrees
Levine
-Cardiac chest pain
Patient demonstrates pain with clutched fist over the midline of the chest
McBurney’s
-Appendicitis
Tenderness 2/3 the distance between the umbilicus and the ileum
Murphy’s
Pt unable to take deep breath on inspiration with deep palpation beneath right coastal margins
