230 QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 2026 GRADED A+
⩥Comprehensive Health History.
Answer: chief complaint, reason for visit, ROS, past medical and
surgical history, social history and family history
⩥Pediatric Body measurements.
Answer: length, height, weight, head circumference fro birth to 36
months
⩥Normal/Hypertension cut off.
Answer: <130 normal 140+ hypertension
⩥Fontanel Closure.
Answer: posterior 1-2 months, anterior 9mo-2years
⩥otoscope.
Answer: adult-up and back, peds- down and back, using largest
speculum that will fit comforably
,⩥tympanic membrane.
Answer: Cone of light R-5 l-7
⩥EOM testing.
Answer: CN III, IV, VI
⩥AP diameter of chest.
Answer: 1:2 (AP less than transverse)
⩥barrel chest.
Answer: COPD
⩥Flat or Dull percussion.
Answer: effusion or pneumonia
⩥normal resonant percussion.
Answer: healthy lung
⩥Hyperressonance (percussion).
Answer: trapped air
⩥crackles/rales.
, Answer: high pitched, discontinuous
⩥Wheezes.
Answer: high-pitched whistling or squeaking sounds during inspiration
or expiration
⩥Rhonchi.
Answer: snoring, rumbling sounds heard upon auscultation of the chest
during respiration-low pitched
⩥tactile fremitus.
Answer: • INCREASED FREMITUS
- Means there is liquid or solid inside the lungs (consolidation such as
with pneumonia)
- Remember Liquid or solid transmits vibrations better than air
• DECREASED FREMITUS
Means air trapping such as with emphysema or bronchial obstruction.
⩥Bronchophony.
Answer: the spoken voice sound heard through the stethoscope, which
sounds soft, muffled, and indistinct over normal lung tissue, clearer over
disease