MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Take the history and perform inspection and auscultation before palpation, as this tends to put the patient at ease and increases cooperation. In addition, palpation may stimulate bowel activity and thus falsely increase bowel sounds if performed before auscultation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Assessing your patient’s abdomen can provide critical information about his internal organs. Always follow this sequence: inspection, auscultation, percussion, and palpation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Inspection (looking at the body) Palpation (feeling the body with fingers or hands) Auscultation (listening to sounds) Percussion (producing sounds, usually by tapping on specific areas of the body)

Detailed explanation-4: -◂ Auscultate for bowel sounds. Begin in the right lower quadrant (RLQ), and move in sequence up to the right upper quadrant (RUQ), left upper quadrant (LUQ), and finally the left lower quadrant (LLQ).