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What are the CAGE questions?
Have you ever felt the need to cut down on drinking?

Have you ever felt annoyed by criticism of your drinking?

Have you ever felt guilty about your drinking?

Have you ever taken a drink first thing in the morning for an Eye Opener to steady your nerves or get rid of hangover?
The terms Acutely or Chronically ill, Frail, or Fit and Robust are used to describe what?
Apparent state of health
Clutching of the chest, pallor, diaphoresis, labored breathing, wheezing and cough are all signs of what?
Cardiac or respiratory distress
Wincing, sweating, protectiveness of painful area, facial grimacing, unusual posture favoring one limb or body area are all signs of what?
Pain
Anxious face, fidgety movements, cold and moist palms, inexpressive or flat affect, poor eye contact, psychomotor slowing are signs of what?
Anxiety or Depression
When examining the skin for color and obvious lesions what are five things that are looked for specifically?
Pallor, cyanosis, jaundice, rashes, bruises
Excess clothing may reflect what two things?
Cold intolerance or hypothyroidism
Cut out holes or slippers may indicate what?
Gout, bunions, or other painful foot conditions.
Untied laces, or patients wearing slippers may suggest what?
Edema
Copper bracelets are something sometimes worn by who?
Patients with arthritis
"Grown Out" hair and nail polish can help you what?
Estimate the length of an illness if the patient can not give a history.
Chewed fingernails can be a sign of what?
Stress
Unkempt appearance can be a sign of what two things?
Depression and Dementia
When observing facial expression what is noticeable about hyperthyroidism?
A stare
When observing facial expression what is noticeable about Parkinsonism?
Immobile Face
When observing facial expression what is noticeable about depression?
Flat or sad affect
What four things can decreased eye contact represent?
It can be cultural, may suggest anxiety, fear or sadness.
If you have a breath odor of acetone what can be the cause?
Diabetes
When a patient has a preference for sitting up it can be a sign of what?
Left sided heart failure
When a patient leans forward with the arms braced it can be a sign of what?
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
If a person has fast frequent movements it can be a sign of?
Hyperthyroidism
If a person has slow movements or activity it can be a sign of?
Hypothyroidism
If a patient has Turner's syndrome they have a very ___ stature?
Short
If a patient has a short stature it can also be a sign of what?
Childhood Renal Failure
Achondroplasia
Hypopituitary Dwarfism
If you see long limbs in proportion to the trunk it can be a sign of what two things?
Hypogonadism
Marfan's Syndrome
Height loss can be seen with what two things?
Osteoporosis
Vertebral Compression Factors
Generalized fat is associated with what?
Obesity
Truncal fat, with relatively thin limbs is associated with?
Cushing's Syndrome
What are seven causes of weight loss?
Malignancy
Diabetes mellitus
Hyperthyroidism
chronic infection
depression
diuresis
successful dieting
Singing, dancing and expansive movements are associated with what?
Manic episode
Grooming and personal hygiene may deteriorate in what three instances?
Depression
Schizophrenia
Dementia
One sided neglect may result from what?
A lesion in the opposite parietal cortex, usually the nondominate side
A flat affect and remoteness is associated with what?
Schizophrenia
This is defective articulation.
Dysarthria
This is a disorder of language.
Aphasia
Hesitances and gaps, disturbed inflections, circumlocutions, and paraphasias are abnormalities that suggest what?
Aphasia
This is refusal to maintain minimally normal body weight, BMI above 17.5kg/m(squared). Pt is afraid of appearing fat, frequently starving but in denial, lacking insight. Pt. is often brought in by family members.
Anorexia Nervosa
What biologic complications are associated with anorexia nervosa?
Neuroendocrine change (amenorrhea), Cardiovascular disorders, metabolic disorders, other (dry skin, dental caries, delayed gastric emptying, constipation, anemia, osteoporosis)
This is repeated binge eating followed by self induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives, diuretics or other medications, fasting or excessive exercise. Pt. often time has normal weight. this is characterized by overeating at least twice a week during 3 month period, large amounts of food consumed in short period (2 hours)
Bullimia nervosa
Pt with hypertension should increase what?
Foods high in potassium
Pt. with hypertension should decrease what?
Foods high in Sodium
Rapid deep breathing is also known as?
Hyperpnea or Hyperventilation
Ataxic breathing is known as?
Biot's breathing
For the anterior thorax, lungs, abdomen and lower extremities the pt should be in what position?
Supine
For the cardiovascular exam the pt should be in what position?
Elevate the head of the bed to approximately 30 degrees.
Pt is lying on their left side for what exam?
Rectal examination
Patient is sitting or supine for this exam?
Nervous system exam
The patient is standing for these four exams
Peripheral vascular

Musculoskeletal

Genitalia and Hernias in men

Nervous System
What position is the female in for the genital and rectal examinations?
Supine in the lithotomy position
Rhythm: A beat of atrial or nodal origion comes earlier than the next expected normal beat. A pause follows, and then the rhythm resumes. Heart Sounds: S1 may differ in intensity from the S1 of normal beats, and S2 may be decreased.
Atrial or nodal premature contractions (Supraventricular)
Rhythm: A beat of ventricular origin comes earlier than the next expected normal beat. A pause follows, and the rhythm resumes. Heart Sounds: S1 may differ in intensity from S1 of the nromal beats and S2 may be decreased. Both sounds are likely to be split.
Ventricular premature contraction
Rhythm: The heart varies cyclically, usually speeding up with inspiration and slowing down with expiration. Heart Sounds: Normal, although S1 may vary with the heart rate.
Sinus Arrhythmia
Rhythm: The ventricular rhythm is totally irregular, although short runs of the irregular ventricular rhythm may seem regular. Heart Sounds: S1 varies with intensity.
Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter with varying AV block
Dry skin, aging, pregnancy, uremia, jaundice, lymphomas, leukemia, drug reactions and lice are all causes of what?
Generalized itching
What is the HARMM melanoma risk model?
History of previous melanoma
Age over 50
Regular dermatoligist absent
Mole changing
Male gender
This results from decreased redness in anemia and decreased blood flow, as occurs in fainting or arterial insufficiency?
Pallor
This is caused by advanced lung disease, congenital heart disease and hemoglobinopathies?
Central cyanosis
This is usually peripheral, reflecting decreased blood flow.
Cyanosis
What is an instance when cyanosis can be central?
Pulmonary edema
Venous obstruction may cause what?
peripheral cyanosis
This suggests liver disease or excessive hemolysis of red blood cells.
Jaundice
Skin dryness is associated with what endocrine disorder?
Hypothyroidism
skin Temperature in hypothyroidism is?
Cool
skin Temperature in hyperthyroidism is?
Warm/Hot
Rough skin is associated with?
Hypothyroidism
Velvety skin is associated with?
Hyperthyroidism
Skin has decreased mobility in?
Edema and scleroderma
Skin has decreased turgor in?
Dehydration
Violaceous eruption over the eyelids in the collagen vascular disease dermatomyositis
Heliotrope
Reddish oval like ringworm lesions?
Pityriasis rosea
Silvery scaly lesions mainly on the extensor surfaces?
Psoriasis
Tan, flat, scaly lesions?
Tinea Versicolor
Skin lesion that appears mainly on flexor surfaces?
Atopic eczema
Visible and palpable thickening of the epidermis and roughening of the skin with increased visibility of the normal skin furrows (often from chronic rubbing)
Lichenification
Open and closed comedones, occasional papules.
Mild acne
Comedones, papules, pustules.
Moderate acne
Superficial, flattened papules covered by a dry scale. Often multiple, can be round or irregular, pink, tan or grayish. Appear on sun exposed skin of older, fair skinned people.
Actinic keratosis
Common, benign, yellowish to brown raised lesions that feel slightly greasy and velvety or warty and have a "stuck on" appearance.
Seborrheic keratosis
Most common in fair skinned adults forty years or older and usually appears on the face.
Basal cell carcinoma
Usually appears on sun exposed skin of fair skinned adults older than sixty years. May develop in an actinic keratosis.
Squamous cell carcinoma
This is benign and known as the common mole.
Nevus
A superficial infection of the proximal and lateral nail folds adjacent to the nail plate.
Paronychia
Clinically a bulbous swelling of the soft tissue at the nail base with a loss of the normal angle between the nail and the proximal nail fold.
Clubbing of the fingers
A painless separation of the whitened opaque nail plate from the pinker translucent nail bed.
Onycholysis
Nail plate turns white with a ground glass appearance, a distal band of reddish brown and obliteration of the lunula. Seen in liver disease, usually cirrhosis.
Terry's nails
Trauma to the nail is commonly followed by nonuniform white spots that grow slowly out with the nail, what are these called?
White spots (Leukonychia)
Curving transverse white bands that cross the nail parallel to the lunula. Seen in arsenic poisoning, heart failure, Hodgkin's disease, chemotherapy, carbon monoxide poisoning, and leprosy.
Transverse white bands (Mees' lines)
Transverse depressions of the nail plates usually bilateral, resulting from temporary disruption of proximal nail growth from systemic illness. Seen in severe illness, trauma, and cold exposure in Raynaud's syndrome.
Transverse linear depressions (Beau's Lines)
Punctate depression of the nail plate, seen in psoriasis.
Pitting
If a headache is severe and of sudden onset it could be what two things?
Subarachnoid hemorrhage or meningitis.
New and persisting progressively severe headaches can be a sign of what three things?
Tumor, abscess or mass lesion
Redness and scaling may indicate of the skin may indicate what?
Seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis
An enlarged skull can be a sign of what two things?
Hydrocephalus or Paget's disease of bone
Hirsutism occurs in some women with?
Polycystic ovary syndrome
If a patient has difficult with close work it can mean what for the eyes?
Hyperopia or presbyopia
If a patient has trouble with distance it can mean what for the eyes?
Myopia
Flashing lights or new vitreous floaters suggest what?
Detachment of the vitreous from the retina
Diplopia in adults may arise from?
A lesion in the brainstem or cerbellum.
A homonymous hemianopsia affects what?
One side of the optic tract leading to either right side or left side homonymous hemianopsia
If there was an occlusion at the optic chiasm what kind of problem could occur?
Bilemporal hemianopsia
An enlarged blind spot occurs in conditions affecting the optic nerve such as?
Glaucoma, optic neuritis and papilledema
Upstarting palpebral fissures are seen in?
Downs syndrome
In paralysis of the ____ the eyes are conjugate in right lateral gaze but not in left lateral gaze.
CN VI
Contraindications for mydriatic drops include?
Head injury and coma

Any suspicion of narrow angle glaucoma
Loss of venous pulsations in pathologic conditions like head trauma, meningitis, or mass lesions may be an early sign of?
Elevated intracranial pressure
Discharge of mucopurulent fluid from the puncta suggests?
An obstructed nasolacrimal duct.
This is a triangular thickening of the bulbar conjunctiva that grows slowly across the outer surface of the cornea.
Pterygium
People with this type of hearing loss have particular trouble understanding speech, often complaining that others mumble, noisy environments make hearing worse. In conductive loss, noisy environments may help.
Sensorineural hearing loss
aminoglycosides, aspirin, NSAIDS, quinine, furosemide etc. can affect what?
Hearing
Tinnitus and vertigo may suggest what disease?
Menieres disease
Oral contraceptives, reserpine, guanethidine, and alcohol can cause?
Nasal Stuffiness
Pain on bending forward, maxillary toothache, may suggest what?
acute bacterial sinusitis
Excessive use of decongestants can cause?
Rhinitis medicomentosa
Fever, pharyngeal exudates, and anterior lymphadenopathy, especially in the absence of cough suggests?
Streptococcal pharyngitis
Smoking, allergy, voice abuse, hypothyroidism, chronic infections such as tuberculosis and tumors can cause what?
Chronic hoarseness
Nontender nodular sweelings covered by normal skin deep in the ear canals suggest what?
Exostoses, nonmalignant overgrowths which may obscure the drum.
Movement of the auricle and tragus is painful in what condition?
Acute otitis externa
Tenderness of the nasal tip or alae suggests local infection such as a?
Furuncle
In viral rhinitis the mucosa is?
Reddened and swollen.
In allergic rhinitis the mucosa is ?
pale, bluish or red
These are pale, semitranslucent masses that usually come from the middle meatus.
Polyps
This is a benign midline lump on the tongue?
Torus palatinus
Asymmetric protrusion of the tongue suggests a lesion of what CN?
CN XII
Enlargement of a supraclavicular node, especially on the left, suggests possible?
Metastasis from a thoracic or an abdominal malignancy
The thyroid is soft in?
Grave's disease
The thyroid is hard in?
Hashimoto's thyroiditis