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1
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Skin is waterproof, protective, and adaptive. Other functions?

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Protection from environment, perception, temp regulation, identification, communication, wound repair, absorption and excretion, production of vit D

2
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Skin in infants?

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Temp regulation, hot and cold. Eccrine sweat glands are not effective initially. Subcutaneous tissue. Decrease in pigmentation.

3
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Skin in children?

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Epidermis thickens, darkens, and becomes lubricated. Hair growth accelerates.

4
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Skin in adolescents?

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Secretions from apocrine sweats glands, sebaceous glands increase. Subcutaneous fat deposits increase. Secondary sex characteristics: areola, pubic and axillary hair, facial hair on men

5
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What happens to skin in the aging adult?

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Loses elasticity, skin folds and sags. Decrease in number and function of sweat and sebaceous glands. Discoloration due to increasing capillary fragility: senile purpura. Cell replacement is slower and wound healing is delayed. Functioning melanocytes decrease, leading to gray fine hair.

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Subjective info for the skin?

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Previous history of disease, change in moles and pigmentation, excessive dryness or moisture, pruritus excessive bruising, rash or lesions, medications environmental or occupational hazards, self-care behaviors.

7
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How do you inspect the skin?

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General pigmentation, freckles, moles, birthmarks. Widespread color change, noting any color changes. Texture, turgor

8
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If lesions are present, what should be noted?

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Color, elevation, pattern or shape, size, location and distribution on body, any exudate. Use a Wood’s light.

9
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Shapes and configurations of lesions?

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Annular or circular, confluent, discrete, grouped, serpiginious, grate, target, linear, zosteriform

10
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ABCDE skin assessment?

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Asymmetry
Border
Color mixture or change
Diameter greater than 6mm
Elevation, evolution, enlargement
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The outer, highly differentiated layer of skin?
The inner, supportive layer made mostly of collagen?
The layer beneath?

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Epidermis
Dermis
Subcutaneous

12
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From the basal cell layer of skin, new cells migrate up and flatten into what outer layer? It consists of dead keratinized cells that are interwoven and tightly packed.

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Horny cell layer

The epidermis is replaced every four weeks.

13
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When does cyanosis occur?

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It indicates hypoxemia and occur with shock, cardiac arrest, heart failure, chronic bronchitis, and congenital heart disease.

14
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What does the pallor of shock often present with?

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Rapid pulse rate, oliguria, apprehension, and restlessness.

15
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Solid raised lesion that has distinct borders and is less than 1 cm in diameter.

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Papule. May have a variety of shapes in profile (domed, flat-topped, umbilicated) and may be associated with secondary features such as crusts or scales.

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Solid, raised, flat-topped lesion greater than 1 cm. in diameter. It is analogous to the geological formation, the plateau.

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Plaque

17
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Raised lesions less than 1 cm that are filled with clear fluid

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Vesicle

18
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Circumscribed clear- fluid-filled lesions that are greater than 1 cm. in diameter.

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Bullae

19
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Flat lesions on the skin less than 1 cm in size? Greater than 1 cm?

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Macule

Patch

20
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A closed capsule or sac-like structure, usually filled with liquid, semisolid, or gaseous material.

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Cyst. Usually occur within almost any type of the body’s tissue; they vary in size from microscopic to large structures that can displace internal organs.

21
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Circumscribed elevated lesions that contain pus. They are most commonly infected

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Pustule

22
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What is jaundice and what does it occur with?

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Rising amounts of bilirubin in the blood. First noted in the junction of the hard and soft palate in the mouth and in the sclera.
Hepatitis, cirrhosis, sickle-cell disease, transfusion reaction, and hemolytic disease of the newborn.

23
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What does erythema occur with?

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Polycythemia, venous stasis, carbon monoxide poisoning, extravascular presence of red blood cells.

24
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Profuse perspiration that accompanies an increased metabolic rate such as occurs in heavy activity or fever. What else can it occur with?

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Diaphoresis. Thyrotoxicosis, heart attack, anxiety, pain.

25
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How does skin feel with hyper and hypothyroidism?

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Hyperthyroidism skin feels smoother and softer, like velvet.
Hypothyroidism skin feels rough, dry, and flaky.

26
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What are the three types of muscles?

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Skeletal, which is voluntary. Smooth and cardiac, which are involuntary.

27
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Explain synovial joints.

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Most common, freely moving. Bones separated from each other and enclosed in a joint cavity filled with fluid that allows sliding of opposing surfaces.
Ankle, wrist, thumb, hip, knee, etc.

28
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Explain nonsynovial joints.

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Consist of bones united by fibrous tissue or cartilage. Immovable. Cartilaginous joints.
Manubrium, sternum, spinal column, pubic symphysis.

29
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What subjective data should be asked about the musculoskeletal?

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Joints, functional assessment, self-care behaviors, muscles, bones.

30
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Fibrous bands running directly from one bone to another bone that strengthen the joint and help prevent movement in undesirable directions.

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Ligaments

31
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How to inspect for musculoskeletal?

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The size and contour of joints, as well as the skin and tissues over the joints for color, swelling, and masses or deformity. Scoliomotor, movement, gait.

32
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Complete loss of contact between the two bones in a joint.

Two bones in a joint stay in contact, but their alignment is off.

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Dislocation

Subluxation

33
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Shortening of a muscle leading to limited ROM of joint.

Stiffness or fixation of a joint.

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Contracture

Ankylosis

34
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What can possibly cause swelling in joints?

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Excess joint fluid (effusion), thickening of the synovial lining, inflammation of the surrounding soft tissue (bursae, tendons), bony enlargement

35
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What to palate for musculoskeletal?

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Skin temp, muscles, bony articulations, area of joint capsule.

36
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Disease inside the joint capsule that produces swelling and tenderness around the whole joint, limiting all planes of ROM in both active and passive motion

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Articular disease. Arthritis, eg.

37
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Disease that involves injury to a specific tendon, ligament, or nerve. Produces swelling and tenderness to that one spot in the joint and affects only certain planes of ROM, especially during active/voluntary motion.

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Extra-articular disease.

38
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Grades of muscle strength? Six of them including zero

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5: Full ROM against gravity, no resistance; normal
4: Full ROM against gravity, some resistance; good
3: Full ROM with gravity, active; fair
2: Full ROM no gravity, passive; poor
1: Slight contraction; trace
0: No contraction; zero

39
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May cause limited ROM pain, and muscle spasm during abduction. Forward flexion stays fairly normal.

A

Rotator cuff lesions

40
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Measures joint movements and angles.

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Goniometer

41
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How does edema mask skin color and pathologic conditions?

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The fluid lies between the surface and the pigmented an vascular layers. It makes dark skin look lighter.

42
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Which spinous processes are prominent at the base of the neck?

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C7 and T1

43
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The inferior angle of the scapulae is normally at the level of what?

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The interstitial space between T7 and T8.

44
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An imaginary line connecting the highest point on each iliac crest crosses what?

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L4

45
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An imaginary line joining the two symmetric dimples that overlie the posterior superior iliac spines crosses what?

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Sacrum