Part of body best used to assess skin temperature.
A rugby player is tackled and sustains an injury to his kidney. As a result of his injury he has this type of pain.
A healthy client may have a lower temperature reading at 0600 hours when compared to a temperature reading at 1600 hours.
Sound that is normal to hear over a healthy child's lung fields when percussing.
Normal percussion sound often heard over the stomach.
The axilla is the preferred location to take a 3 year old child with a suspected fever's temperature.
A subjective difference in a sound's distinctive overtones heard when completing percussion.
Type of pain associated with a superficial cut to a finger.
An assessment technique that requires one hand of the examiner to contact the body wall directly. This produces a sound.
Refers to the loudness or softness of sound when using the percussion technique.
Visceral pain which is a type of nociceptive pain.
Direct Percussion
Otoscope
Amplitude
Ophthalmoscope
Dorsal of hand.
Indirect Percussion
Quality
Somatic pain which is a type of nociceptive pain.
Tympany
False
May result in confusing artifact sounds on auscultation.
True
Hyperresonance