Skin to Ear assessment

• Pallor


  Loss of color
• Cyanosis


  Skin appear blue-tinged
• vitiligo


  white patches on the skin
• Jaundice


  (yellow skin tones) from pale to pumpkin
• Acanthosis nigricans


  (rough and darkening of skin) in localize areas
• Fine vellus


  hair covers the entire body except for the soles, palms, lips, and nipples (These are short, fine hairs that starts to develop in childhood)
• Paronychia


  (inflammation), detachment of nailplate from the nailbed (onycholysis)
• Myopia


  (impaired far vision) when the second number in the test result is larger than the first. known as nearsightedness
• Hyperopia


  Farsightedness
• Presbyopia


  (impaired near vision)
• Phoria


  is a term used to describe misalignment that occurs only when fusion reflex is blocked
• Tropia

  is a specific type of misalignment
• estropia

  an inward turn of the eye,
• exotropia


  an outward turn of the eye
• Nystagmus


  an oscillating (shaking) movements of the eye
• constriction


  The normal direct and consensual pupillary response
• Ptosis


  drooping of the upper eyelid
• Ectropion


  an everted lower eyelid
• Exopthalmos


  protrusion of the eyeballs accompany by retracted eyelid margins
• fovea


  (sharpest area of vision)
• Cataracts


  appears as block spots against the background of the red light reflex
• Papilledema


  swelling of the optic disc
• Glaucoma


  intraocular pressure interferes blood supply to optic structures
• Optic atrophy


  caused by death of optic nerve fibers
• Hyperemia


  occurs when injury causes red blood cells to collect in the lower half of the anterior chamber
• Hypopyon


  in which white blood cells accumulate in the anterior chamber and produces cloudiness
• Tophi


  (non tender, hard, cream colored nodules on the helix or anti helix, containing uric acid crystals)
• otitis externa


  Redness, swelling, scaling, or itching of the ear
• Frostbite


  Pale blue ear color
• mastoiditis


  Tenderness over the mastoid process
• otitis media


  Tenderness behind the ear
• Cerumen


  earwax
• Exostosis


  non-malignant nodular swellings of the internal ear
• acute otitis media


  Red, bulging eardrum and distorted diminished or absent light reflex
• serious otitis media


  Yellowish, bulging membrane with bubbles behind
• Weber’s Test


  The test help to evaluate the condition of sound waves through bone to help distinguish between conductive hearing and sensorineural hearing
• Rinne Test


  A test that is used to compare air and bone conduction sounds
• Romberg’s Test


  Test the client’s equilibrium
• Diaphoresis


  Profuse sweating
• Dermatitis


  Inflammation of the skin