Signs/terms

Question 1

Beck’s triad

Answer 1

Cardiac tamponade

Hypotension, muffled heart sounds, and jugular vein distention

Question 2

Murphy’s sign

Answer 2

Cholelithiasis

Push up under rib cage

Question 3

Battle’s sign

Answer 3

Basilar skull fracture
(Bruising behind the ear)
HOB up 30 degrees, can’t have NG tube or pt can’t blow nose

Question 4

Tracheal deviation

Answer 4

Tension pneumothorax
(Pushes trachea over)
Usually from blunt trauma, there are no breath sounds

Question 5

Brudzinski’s sign

Answer 5

Meningitis
(Pain with movement of the neck)
BrudzinSKI- neck hurts when SKIing

Question 6

Sausage shaped mass

Answer 6

Intussusception

Telescoping of the bowel

Question 7

Ptosis

Answer 7

Myasthenia gravis

Dropping of the eyelid from loss of acetylcholine

Question 8

String sign

Answer 8

Crohn’s disease

Body attacks so much(autoimmune), colon Is so small, it’s like a string

Question 9

Olive shaped mass In upper abdomen

Answer 9

Pyloric stenosis
(Infants, first born males, projectile vomiting, mass shuts down-can't eat)

Question 10

Cullen’s sign

Answer 10

Pancreatitis

Bruising around the umbilicus

Question 11

Rovsing’s sign

Answer 11

Appendicitis
(Rovsing’s=RIGHT sided pain)
RR

Question 12

Kehr’s sign

Answer 12

Spleen injury

Left shoulder pain

Question 13

VQ scan

Answer 13

Shows low mod high risk for PE

Question 14

Chest X-ray

Answer 14

Shows enlarged heart
Pneumonia
Cracked ribs

Question 15

Steeple sign

Answer 15

Croup, strider, edema in the airway

Question 16

Fecalith

Answer 16

Poop stone

Question 17

Hypoglycemia

Answer 17

Cold and clammy, irritable

Question 18

Hyperglycemia

Answer 18

Polyphagia, polydipsia, polyuria, hot and dry

Question 19

Photophobia

Answer 19

3 M’s

1. Migraine
2. Measles
3. Meningitis

Question 20

Echo

Answer 20

Shows

1. Ejection fraction
2. Any growth on valves
3. If in a-fib

Question 21

Night sweats

Answer 21

1. Leukemia
2. Hiv +
3. TB

Question 22

Gray turners

Answer 22

Bruising on back-pancreatitis

“Turn to see”

Question 23

Liver biopsy

Answer 23

Position on R side so pressure is on liver and will help prevent bleeding

Question 24

Retinal detachment

Answer 24

Prone position

Question 25

Low NA

Answer 25

Lemonade.. Citrus foods(orange wedges)

Question 26

Egophony

Answer 26

Change in king sounds wig vowel pronunciation

Question 27

Psoriasis

Answer 27

Chronic inflam of dead skin