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What is percussion  tapping the person's skin with short, sharp strokes to assess underlying structures indirect percussion  strike finger or hand placed over body surface What is tympany  high-pitched and musical heard in air-filled abd organs like stomach and intestines What is...

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NR304 Final Exam Review Questions and
Correct Answers | Latest Update
What is percussion


 tapping the person's skin with short, sharp strokes to assess underlying

structures




indirect percussion


 strike finger or hand placed over body surface




What is tympany


 high-pitched and musical heard in air -filled abd organs like stomach and

intestines




What is Resonance


 low-pitched sound heard over normal lungs




What is Hyperresonance


 Loud, lower-pitched sound than normal resonance heard over

hyperinflated lungs, such as in COPD and acute asthma.




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What is dullness


 High-pitched, soft, short. Heard over solid organs




What is flattness


 high-pitched, very soft, very short. Heard over solid tissue (muscle and

bone)




Direct percussion


 involves striking a finger or hand directly against the patient's body




Blunt Percussion


 used to detect tenderness over organs by placing one hand flat on the

body surface and using the fist of the other hand to strike the back of the

hand flat on the body surface




Normal tempterature Range: Oral


 96.4 to 99.1




Difference between apical and radial pulse rate


 Pulse Deficit


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Ausculatory gap


 sounds disappear between systolic and diastolic BP




Arterial blood pressure


 force of clood pushing against side of vessel wall




Systolic blood pressure


 maximum pressure during left ventricular contraction (Systole)




Diastolic BP


 Pressure in the arteries when the heart is resting




Pre-hypertensive


 120-139/80-89




Stage 1 HTN


 140-159/90-99




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