Outline

There is a head-to-toe approach. A quick and precise head-to-toe assessment can be conducted with tips, tricks, and tools.

• Assess the patient using the most comprehensive approach
• Evaluate baseline and identify patient status changes
• Devise tips and tools to perform a more efficient exam without missing key clues
• Conduct proper assessment skills – inspection, palpation, percussions, auscultation

Neurological exam. It is possible to master the 6-part components of a neuroscience exam in less time.

• Unraveling the 6-Part components of a thorough Neurological Examination
• ABCT Components of Mental Status
• Key points and clues of using Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) Instrument and what can be diagnosed as a result
• Evaluate an efficient and accurate assessment of normal vs. abnormal findings for: altered mental status, cranial nerves, motor, sensory, cerebellar functions, reflexes
• Danger Signs for abnormal findings and how to identify diseases by physical examination
• LIVE PARTNER DEMOS: Practice with case studies and proper assessment
  • Key clues you can’t miss
  • Risk factors, readings, subjective and objective data
  • Plan of care

Respiratory exam Identifying the different breath sounds can help narrow down the diagnosis.

• Physical assessment of the respiratory system – key points of normal anatomy to remember
• Identification of normal, abnormal, decreased or absent breath and lung sounds
• Assessment and techniques of Tactile Fremitus, percussion, lung auscultation
• Interpreting what you are hearing and what you should expect to hear:
• Bronchial, Broncho-vesicular, Vesicular Breath Sounds
• Bronchophony, Egophony, Whispered Petroliloquy
• Death Rattle, Absent Breath Sounds
• Learning the adventitious sounds like Crackles, Rhonchi, Stridor, Wheezes and what to do with them
• What Lung Sounds to expect in different disease states
• LIVE PARTNER DEMOS: Practice with sounds: Listen, assess, and learn

There is a Cardiac Exam. Knowing the different murmurs, their presentation, sounds and location can be used to figure out the disease process.

• Examination of mitral, tricuspid, pulmonary, and aortic
• Auscultation sites, sequencing and skills
• Characteristics of a functional murmur
• How to identify?
• 7-point classification
• When does a murmur become pathologic?
• Strategies for detection of abnormal cardiac sounds
• LIVE PARTNER DEMOS: Practice and learn with examples