Target Your Assessments - Answers Comprehensive Assessment
Comprehensive Health History
Head-to-toe Exam
Pre-op History
Problem Oriented History
Physical Finding
Differential Diagnosis - Answers Refers to the most likely diagnosis explaining the patient's condition.
Have to organize what you see and hear.
- Fatigue
- SOB/DOE
- Intermittent Chest Pain & Palpitations
- Hypotension
- Tachycardia
- Glossitis
- Pagophagia
Assessment Data - Answers Subjective
Symptoms
Chief Complaint
Patient H/O CC
Objective
Signs
Physical Exam
Seven Attributes Of A Symptom - Answers OLDCARTS - Onset, Location, Duration, Character,
Aggravating/Alleviating Factors, Radiation, Timing, and Severity.
Components of the H&P - Answers Identifying Data
Reliability
Chief Complaint(s)
Present Illness (History of Chief Complaint)
Past History (Medical, Surgical, OB/GYN, Psych)
Family History
Personal and Social History
Review of Systems
Physical Examination
Assessment(Diagnoses)
Impression (including a problem list) and Plan
Physical Examination Sequence - Answers General Survey
Vital Signs
Skin: Upper Torso
Head and Neck
Thorax and Lungs
Breasts
Cardiovascular
Abdomen
Peripheral Vascular
Nervous
Musculoskeletal
Male and Female Genitalia and rectum
Equipment Needed for the Physical Examination - Answers Stethoscope
BP Cuff