NR 547 Differential Diagnosis 2024
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1. What is the best follow-up question for someone who tells you
that the pain is constant?
a. can you use one finger to point to the pain location?
b. do you have the pain right now?
c. does the pain wake you up at night after you have fallen
asleep?
d. Is there anything that makes the better better or worse? -
Answer>> b. do you have the pain right now?
2. 52-year-old woman with shoulder pain tells you that she has
pain at night that awakens her. After asking a series of follow-up
questions, you are able to determine that she had trouble falling
asleep because her pain increases when she goes to bed. Once
she falls asleep, she wakes up as soon as she rolls onto that side.
What is the most likely explanation for this pain behavior?
a. Minimal distractions heighten a person's awareness of
musculoskeletal discomfort.
b. This is a systemic pattern that is associated with a neoplasm.
c. It is impossible to tell.
d. This represents a chronic clinical presentation of a
musculoskeletal problem. - Answer>> a. Minimal distractions
heighten a person's awareness of musculoskeletal discomfort.
3. Referred pain patterns associated with impairment of the
spleen can produce musculoskeletal symptoms in:
a. left shoulder
,b. right shoulder
c. mid-back or upper back, scapular, and right shoulder areas
d. thorax, scapulae, right shoulder, or left shoulder - Answer>>
a. left shoulder
4. Associated signs and symptoms are a major red flag for pain of
a systemic or visceral origin compared to musculoskeletal pain.
a. true
b. false - Answer>> a. true
5. Words used to describe neurogenic pain often include:
a. throbbing, pounding, beating
b. crushing, shooting, pricking
c. aching, heavy, sore
d. agonizing, piercing, unbearable - Answer>> b. crushing,
shooting, pricking
6. Pain (especially intense bone pain) that is disproportionately
relieved by aspirin can be a symptom of:
a. neoplasm
b. assault or trauma
c. drug dependence
d. fracture - Answer>> a. neoplasm
7. Joint pain can be a reactive, delayed, or allergic response to:
a. medications
b. chemicals
c. infections
d. artificial sweeteners
e. all the above - Answer>> e. all the above
, 8. Bone pain associated with neoplasm is characterized by:
a. increases with weight bearing
b. negative heel strike
c. relieved by turns or other antacid in women
d. goes away after eating - Answer>> a. increases with weight
bearing
9. A 48 year old man presented LBP of unknown cause. He works
as a carpenter and says he is very active, has work related
mishaps, and engage in repetitive motions of all kinds using his
arms, back, and legs. The pain is intense when he has it, but it
seems to come and go. He is not sure if eating makes the pain
better or worse. He has lost his appetite because of the pain.
After conducting an examination including a screening exam, the
clinical presentation does not match the expected pattern for a
musculoskeletal or neuromuscular problem. You refer him to a
physician for medical testing. You find out later he had
pancreatitis. What is the most likely explanation for this pain
pattern.
a. toxic waste products from the pancreas are released into the
intestines causing irritation of the retroperitoneal space
b. rupture of the pancreas causes internal bleeding and referred
pain called Kehr's sign
c. the pancreas an - Answer>> d. obstruction, irritation, or
inflammation of the body of the pancreas distends the pancreas,
thus applying pressure on the central respiratory diaphragm.
10. Pulse strength graded as 1 means:
a. easily palpable, normal
b. present occasionally
c. pulse diminished, barely palpable
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