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3 sie 2023 · Brudzinski sign is a physical test for meningitis that involves neck flexion causing hip and knee flexion. Learn how it is performed, why it happens, and what are its limitations in this article from Osmosis.
Positive sign is involuntary flexing of hips and knees (an involuntary reaction to lessen the stretch on the inflamed meninges) Evidence.
1 maj 2023 · Brudzinski's sign has low sensitivity but high specificity for detecting meningitis. For Brudzinski's sign, estimates are that the diagnostic sensitivity is between 2 and 43%, and the specificity for meningitis is between 80 to 100%.
1 wrz 2017 · This article reviews the etiologies, diagnosis, and management of meningitis, a serious inflammation of the meninges. It does not mention positive Brudzinski sign, a clinical finding that may indicate meningeal irritation, as a diagnostic criterion.
To elicit Brudzinski’s sign, the patients lie supine and their necks are passively flexed by the examining clinician. The test is positive if this causes reflex flexion of the hip and knee. Figure 1 and online supplementary figure 2 demonstrates how to test for Kernig’s sign and Brudzinski’s sign.
The Brudziński cheek sign or Brudziński's cheek phenomenon is a clinical sign in which pressure on the cheek elicits a reflex action, usually a twitching of the area near the eye or upper lip, and flexion of the forearm when pressure is applied to upper arm with a sphygmomanometer.
Brudzinski's sign is characterized by reflexive flexion of the knees and hips following passive neck flexion. To elicit this sign, the examiner places one hand on the patient's chest and the other hand behind the patient's neck.
