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Health Assessment
Health Assessment-Cardiac
Question | Answer |
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What questions to ask: | Any chest pain? sob? weight gain? taking any medications? any concerns today? |
Appearance | How does the pt appear today? How are they sitting? Any acute distress noted? |
Inspect neck | Any pulsations or jugular veinous distention? what position for JVD? |
Inspect chest | Any pulsations noted? can you see the PMI? |
Palpate chest | Any thrills? Lifts? Heaves? |
Auscultate chest | any murmur present? Where? if so, listen for bruit at carotid |
More auscultation | Aortic spot? how would you document? Pulmonic? Where's Erb's point? Tricuspid spot? Mitral area? |
S1-S4 | Where is S1 the loudest? where is S2 the loudest? Any S3 or S4 noted? If you heard a murmur, how would you grade it? What does III/VI mean? IV/VI? V/VI? VI/VI? |
Pulses | how would you assess apical pulse versus radial? pedal? posterior tibial pulse? if you couldn't find the pulse what would you do? |