MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The abdominal examination consists of four basic components: inspection, palpation, percussion, and 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: -WHEN YOU PERFORM a physical assessment, you’ll use four techniques: inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Use them in sequence-unless you’re performing an abdominal assessment. Palpation and percussion can alter bowel sounds, so you’d inspect, auscultate, percuss, then palpate an abdomen.

Detailed explanation-4: -Which is the appropriate method for a nurse to use when auscultating a patient’s abdomen? Use the diaphragm of the stethoscope for auscultation. Auscultation of the abdomen is useful in detecting high-pitched bowel sounds. The diaphragm of the stethoscope is sensitive in picking up high-pitched sounds of the abdomen.