Borchers Andrea Ann (ed.) Handbook of Signs & Symptoms 2015

diagnostic tests drugs

emergency interventions

history and physical examination medical causes

patient counseling Anxiety

agitation and chest pain and diaphoresis and drugs

with fatigue

history and physical examination and insomnia

medical causes mild

patient counseling polyphagia severe supportive care

Anxiety attack, palpitations Aortic aneurysm

absent/weak pulse and dissecting

chest pain and hypertension and

increased capillary refill and ptosis

thoracic, nonproductive cough and tracheal tugging

Aortic arch syndrome absent/weak pulse and

with increased capillary refill mydriasis and

ptosis

Aortic bifurcation occlusion absent/weak pulse and ptosis

Aortic insufficiency with gallop, atrial

with gallop, ventricular (S3)

murmurs and tachycardia

widened pulse pressure Aortic stenosis

absent/weak pulse and with gallop, atrial murmurs and

ptosis syncope tachycardia

Aphasia

after development anomic childhood diagnostic tests

emergency interventions

history and physical examination language originates

medical causes patient counseling types of

Aphthous, mouth lesions and Aplastic anemia

epistaxis and gum bleeding and

Apnea causes drugs

emergency interventions

history and physical examination medical causes

patient counseling prevent sleep-related

Apneustic respirations characteristics emergency interventions medical causes monitor, patient

patient counseling Appendicitis

abdominal pain and anorexia and

back pain and dysuria and Mcburney’s sign and nausea and

positive psoas sign vomiting

Arcuate fasciculus Areolar gland abscess

breast nodule and breast pain and

Argyll Robertson pupil, miosis and Arm pain

causes and findings describe

history and physical examination local pain causes

medical causes monitor, patient patient counseling

Arm trauma, edema of arm and Arnold-Chiari syndrome, opisthotonos and Arrhythmias

absent/weak pulse and ptosis

pulse rhythm abnormality

Arsenic poisoning, generalized tonic-clonic seizures Arterial occlusion

absent/weak pulse and

acute, and intermittent claudication with increased capillary refill mottled skin

muscle spasms and pallor and paresthesia

ptosis Arteriosclerosis obliterans

and intermittent claudication mottled skin

paresthesia

Arteriosclerosis, widened pulse pressure

Arteriosclerotic occlusive disease (chronic), cyanosis and Arteriovenous malformations, headache and

Arthritis

Brudzinski’s sign and and jaw pain paresthesia

Asbestosis, pleural friction rub Aspiration of foreign body

barking cough and stridor

tachypnea wheezing

Aspiration pneumonitis productive cough wheezing

Asterixis characteristics drugs

elicit

emergency interventions

history and physical examination measures

medical causes patient counseling

Asthma

accessory muscles and acute, nasal flaring and anxiety and

chest pain and dyspnea and

nonproductive cough and rhonchi

shallow respirations tachypnea

wheezing

Asthma attack, costal and sternal retraction Ataxia

definition

emergency interventions

history and physical examination

identification laboratory studies medical causes occurrence patient counseling toxic levels

Ataxic respirations. See Biot’s respirations Atelectasis

dyspnea and nonproductive cough and shallow respirations tracheal deviation

Atherosclerosis

of carotid artery, tinnitus hypertension and

Athetoid movements Atonic seizure Atrial fibrillation

Atrioventricular (AV) block, with gallop, atrial Atrophic vaginitis

postmenopausal vaginal bleeding vaginal discharge

Aura

advise, patients classification emergency interventions

history and physical examination medical causes

patient counseling types of

Aural polyps

and hearing loss otorrhea and

Autonomic hyperreflexia anxiety and diaphoresis and

Avian flu fever and

nonproductive cough and throat pain

B

Babinski’s reflex

clinical history and physical examination diagnostic tests

in infants medical causes

patient counseling Back pain

in child

clinical history and physical examination emergency interventions

geriatrics intrinsic medical causes neurologic tests

patient counseling pelvic examination

Balanitis, with genital lesions, male Balanoposthitis, with genital lesions, male Ballance’s sign

Ballard Scale, for gestational age calculation

Barbiturate withdrawal, generalized tonic-clonic seizures Barking cough. See Cough, barking

Barotrauma earache and epistaxis and

Basal cell carcinoma, vulvar lesions Basilar artery insufficiency, dysarthria and

Basilar artery occlusion, and gag reflex abnormalities Basilar skull fracture

Battle’s sign and otorrhea and rhinorrhea

Battle’s sign

in children

clinical history and physical examination medical causes

patient counseling

Behçet’s syndrome, mouth lesions Bell’s palsy

with corneal reflex drooling and

paralysis

Benign cysts, vulvar lesions Benign familial essential tremor Benign positional vertigo

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) bladder distention and nocturia and

urinary frequency urinary hesitancy urinary incontinence

Benign vulvar tumors Benzodiazepines Biceps muscle

arm pain and rupture testing muscle strength

Bile duct cancer, clay colored stools Biliary cirrhosis, clay colored stools Biliary surgery, clay colored stools Biot’s respirations

Bizarre gait. See Gait, bizarre Bladder calculus

bladder distention and urinary frequency urinary urgency

Bladder cancer

bladder distention and dysuria and

hematuria and urinary incontinence

Bladder distention catheterization drugs, caused by

emergency interventions

history and physical examination in infants

medical causes patient counseling pediatrics

Bladder trauma, hematuria and Blast lung injury

chest pain and

dyspnea and nasal flaring and

nonproductive cough and wheezing

Blastomycosis, pustular rash Bleeding gums. See Gum bleeding Blepharitis, eye pain and

Blood dyscrasias, menorrhagia and Blood pressure

accurate measurement of decrease

arterial catheter definition diagnostic tests drugs

emergency interventions

history and physical examination medical causes

patient counseling reflect

increase drugs

history and physical examination indicate

long-term control with malignant medical causes monitoring pathophysiology patient counseling reflect

treatments normal pediatric

Blood transfusion, Chvostek’s sign and Bone cancer, leg pain

Bony crepitation. See Crepitation, bony Bony crepitus. See Crepitation, bony Botulism

diplopia and dysarthria and

with hypoactive DTR

mydriasis and nonreactive pupils paralysis

ptosis Bowel sounds

absent

abdominal surgery abrupt cessation definition

emergency interventions

history and physical examination intra-abdominal sepsis mechanical obstruction

medical causes neurogenic inhibition patient counseling

hyperactive characteristics diagnostic tests

emergency interventions

history and physical examination medical causes

patient counseling hypoactive

drugs

history and physical examination indications

medical causes obstruction patient counseling radiation therapy

Semi-Fowler’s position surgery

Bowen’s disease

with genital lesions, male scaly skin

Bradycardia definition diagnostic tests drugs

history and physical examination

invasive treatments laboratory tests managing

medical causes patient counseling

Bradypnea

brain’s respiratory control centers drugs

emergency interventions

history and physical examination medical causes

oxygen judiciously patient counseling

Brain abscess aphasia and

complex partial seizures decorticate posture and with gait, spastic

generalized tonic-clonic seizures headache and

level of consciousness in paralysis

simple partial seizures

Brain lesions, muscle flaccidity and Brain stem

compression, Biot’s respirations and dysfunction, apnea and

glioma, and gag reflex abnormalities Brain stem infarction

with corneal reflex decerebrate posture and Doll’s eye sign and

Brain stem ischemia Brain stem stroke

dysarthria and dysphagia and

Brain stem tumor, Doll’s eye sign and Brain tumorBrain tumor

aphasia and

with Babinski’s reflex with confusion