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Diagnostic Testing for Meningitis
History:
 • Triad: Fever, neck stiffness, and altered mental status
 • Sens: 44%
Triad: Fever, neck ... Kernig Sign: • Leg ... Passively flex neck ... and legs will flex ... diagnosis #testing #physicalexam
Pediatric Primitive Reflexes - Maneuver and Ages

Palmar Grasp Reflex
 - Place your fingers into the baby's
head, back, and legs ... hands open, and legs ... Asymmetric Tonic Neck ... The arms/legs on ... Timeline #Pediatrics #Peds
Infantile Spasms 
Associated with Tuberous Sclerosis 
1) Flexor spasms: Sudden flexion of neck, trunk, arms, and
Sudden flexion of neck ... trunk, arms, and legs ... of the arms or legs ... extension of the legs ... Infantile #Spasms #Peds
Pitting Leg Edema on Physical Exam

Finger impressions showcasing post-surgical pitting leg edema after knee injury.

Via David
Pitting Leg Edema ... post-surgical pitting leg ... edema after knee ... Pitting #Edema #PhysicalExam ... clinical #video #leg
Brudzinski’s Sign in Meningitis (first described in 19th century by Dr. Josef Brudzinski)

Brudzinski's sign is characterized
following passive neck ... Passive neck flexion ... In very young (less ... Clinical #Video #PhysicalExam ... #Pediatrics #Peds
Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR)

This primitive reflex found in newborn babies that normally vanishes around 4
Asymmetrical Tonic Neck ... one side, the leg ... and the arm and leg ... #Reflex #PhysicalExam ... video #Neurology #Peds
Tone - Leg Recoil on Physical Exam
To test leg recoil, the legs are fully flexed on
recoil, the legs ... The legs should ... Legs that remain ... tone #Newborn #PhysicalExam ... clinical #video #peds
Apley Compression Test on Knee Examination

With the patient prone, the knee being tested is flexed to
Compression Test on Knee ... patient prone, the knee ... while the other leg ... compression force on the leg ... #PhysicalExam #
Hemiplegic Gait 

With a hemiplegic gait there is impaired natural swinging at the hip and knee
at the hip and knee ... with leg circumduction ... ambulation, the leg ... Gait #Neurology #PhysicalExam
Kernig's Sign in Meningitis

Kernig's sign is present if the patient, in the supine position with the
with the hip and knee ... cannot extend the knee ... extension of the knee ... Clinical #Video #PhysicalExam ... #Pediatrics #Peds