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Fluid Wave Test
Aka: Fluid Wave Test- Indication
- Confirming presence of Ascites
- Technique
- Assistant presses ulnar hand vertically at mid-Abdomen
- Examiner taps flank sharply with right hand
- Examiner's left hand receives impulse on opposite flank
- Anticipate time lag between tap and impulse received
- Interpretation
- Impulse received implies it was passed by Ascites