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    The document provides instructions for observing and examining a patient's abdomen. It lists things to check by sight such as the hands, face, and abdomen for signs like jaundice, swelling, or distension. It describes palpating the abdomen while asking about pain, and checking the liver, spleen, kidneys, and bladder through palpation and percussion. It also lists auscultating the abdomen to check bowel sounds, bruits, and splashing sounds.

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    The document provides instructions for observing and examining a patient's abdomen. It lists things to check by sight such as the hands, face, and abdomen for signs like jaundice, swelling, or distension. It describes palpating the abdomen while asking about pain, and checking the liver, spleen, kidneys, and bladder through palpation and percussion. It also lists auscultating the abdomen to check bowel sounds, bruits, and splashing sounds.

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    Abdominal

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    Tony Howat
    The document provides instructions for observing and examining a patient's abdomen. It lists things to check by sight such as the hands, face, and abdomen for signs like jaundice, swelling, or distension. It describes palpating the abdomen while asking about pain, and checking the liver, spleen, kidneys, and bladder through palpation and percussion. It also lists auscultating the abdomen to check bowel sounds, bruits, and splashing sounds.

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    ABDOMINAL

    Observation
     
    Hands
     Palmar erythemia
     Clubbing
     Asterixis
     Needle holes
     Spider navae
     
    Face
     Parotid Swelling (alcohol abuse)
     Jaundice
     Pallor
     Fetor

     Abdomen
     Rigidity
     Scars
     Distension
     Pulsation
      
    Palpation + Percussion
     Ask for pain
    (rebound tenderness if pain)
    - Light
      -Deep (tenderness, masses, muscle tone)
     Liver
    Palpate with expiration, find borders with percussion
     Spleen
    If palpable on inspiration then enlarged
     Kidneys
    Balottable, palpate for tenderness posterior if not percus with fist
      Pitting edema of sacrum
     Bladder
    Percuss
     Check Ascites (shifting dullness)
      
    Ascultate
     Bowel sounds
     Abdominal aorta arterial bruit
     Succussion Splash
     Edema ankles
     

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