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Shoulder Exam - Provocative Testing

Supraspinatus muscle injury:
 - Jobe’s Test
 - Hawkin’s Test
 - Drop Arm
- Hawkin’s Test ... - Drop Arm Test ... Labral tear: ... Testing #Maneuvers #RotatorCuff ... #Impingement #ALiEM
Labral tear - Crank Test 1. Position patient's arm in 90 degree abduction and elbow flexion
Labral tear - Crank ... Test 1. ... Sports #Labral #Tear ... #RotatorCuff #Test ... #Crank #ALiEM
Labral tear - O'Brien Test - 1. Position patient's shoulder in 90 degree flexion, elbow extended,
Labral tear - O'Brien ... Test - 1. ... Sports #Labral #Tear ... #RotatorCuff #Test ... #OBrien #ALiEM
Dix-Hallpike Maneuver for BPPV

Procedure:
1. Make the patient sit on examination table, such that the shoulders would
Dix-Hallpike Maneuver ... on examination table ... on the edge of table ... 45° towards the test ... throughout the test
Post-abortion Hemorrhage Management Algorithm
Cervical laceration
 → Direct pressure, silver nitrate for small laceration
 → Repair with
Hemorrhage Management Algorithm ... Laparoscopy and Repair Clinical ... coagulopathy or DIC ... Care team for massive ... Hemorrhage #Management #Algorithm
Flexor Digitorum Profundus Test

Isolate the distal interphalangeal joint over the edge of the table and observe
Digitorum Profundus Test ... the edge of the table ... to flex at the DIP ... partial or complete tear ... #PhysicalExam #clinical
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... Dx). ... is a skin prick test ... Giant retinal tears
Dix-HaIlpike Maneuver
 • Turn head to 45° and then rapidly lay patient to a supine position
Dix-HaIlpike Maneuver ... 20° over end of table ... The test is positive ... toward the affected ear ... TylerLarsenMD #Dix
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
tuberculosis infections/year ... disease • DM DDX ... characteristic features Clinical ... Tuberculin skin test ... (IGRA) • PPD (TST
Elson's Test - Extensor Digitorum Finger Examination

Elson's test evaluates for partial or complete tear of the
Elson's Test - Extensor ... partial or complete tear ... the edge of the table ... is a positive test ... #PhysicalExam #clinical