MODULE 2 PART 4: PEX PROCESS - PERCUSSION

Question 1

How do you do percussions?

Answer 1

Tapping of fingers or hands quickly and sharply against parts of the animal’s body.

Question 2

What are the purposes of percussion?

Answer 2

• Locate organ borders
• Identify organ shape and position
• Determine if an organ is solid or filled with fluid or gas

Question 3

The value of percussion in animal is limited by their?

Answer 3

• Hair coat
• Reluctance to cooperate
• Anatomy

Question 4

Identify the type of percussion:

• The striking of the part under examination directly with the finger or a plexor, without the intervention of another finger or pleximeter

Answer 4

Direct (immediate) percussion

Question 5

Identify the type of percussion:

• Percussion performed by using the fingers of one hand as a plexor and those of the opposite hand as a pleximeter

Answer 5

Indirect (mediate) percussion

Question 6

What are the sounds of percussion if the organ is air filled?

Answer 6

Tympanitic, drum-like sound - abdominal structures

Question 7

Hyperresonant (pneumothorax) in percussion is said to sound similar to ?

Answer 7

Percussion of puffed up cheeks

Question 8

Percussions lower than normal percussion means ?

Answer 8

Impaired resonance (mass, consolidation)

Question 9

Dull (consolidation) percussion is similar to percussion of a mass such as a ?

Answer 9

Liver