Systematic Approach to Physical Assessment
- Legal Importance of Your Assessment and Its Documentation
- Old Tools, New Tools, the Same Old Five Senses; Using Lab Values
- Your 6th Sense; Following Your Hunches
- Revisiting the “Vital Signs”; The Importance of Critical Thinking
- Doing it Right: Inspection, Palpation, Percussion, and Auscultation
Let’s Start at the Core: Assessing Cardiovascular Function
- The Cornerstones of Cardiovascular Assessment
- Basic to Advanced Assessments; Heart Sounds
- Assessing the Chronic vs. Acute CV Patient
- Case Studies: Differences in Presentation and Assessment of the Acute MI, Angina, and Heart Failure Patient
Assessing Respiratory Function: The In’s and Out’s of Oxygen
- What Your Respiratory Assessment Must Include
- The ABC’s of Adventitia; A Primer to Blood Gas Interpretation
- Case Studies: Differences in the Presentation and Assessment of Urgent, Acute, and Chronic Respiratory Problems
- P.E., Respiratory Failure, Pnemothorax, Asthma, Pneumonia, COPD
Into the Mystic: Neurological Assessment
- The Challenge of Assessing in Patients in Altered States of Consciousness
- Neuro Assessment Tools & Scales; Signs of Increased Intracranial Pressure
- Case Studies: Hemorrhagic vs. Ischemic Stroke; Seizures
A “Gut” Feeling? Assessing Gastrointestinal Function
- The Belly: Where Inflammation and Obstruction Rule the Day
- Case Studies: The “Acute Abdomen” vs. Other GI Disorders
When Voiding qs Goes Awry: Assessing Renal Function
- More than Fluid Balance: Assessing the Four Main Renal Functions
- The Symptoms of Renal Disease; Case Studies: Acute vs. Chronic Renal Failure
