Angelica Dizon Hands-On Physical Assessment

We cannot afford not to pick up any clues within the limited time that we have with each individual patient. That’s why, now more than ever – we must incorporate proper physical assessment skills and listening techniques into our daily practice.

Angelica Dizon Hands-On Physical Assessment

• Proven Physical Assessment Techniques in Today’s Fast-Paced Environment
• Enhance your confidence, increase efficiency, and eliminate errors
• Normal vs. Pathology – When abnormal becomes an issue
• Make sure you have a clear and efficient head-To-Proper Toe Assessment –
• Eliminate “Eye-Balling” Patients
• Predict Differential Diagnosis by Identifying Cardiac Respiratory, and Neurological Disorders
• Hands-On Clinical Demo Labs

We are constantly challenged in our clinical lives with the challenge of seeing more patients within a short time. How do we manage? How can we manage? By spending less time with each patient while still ensuring that a thorough physical examination is done.

“8 in 10 misdiagnoses were due, in part, to problems in the patient encounter, such as errors during the physical exam or medical history-taking.” American Medical Association

We cannot afford not to pick up any clues within the limited time we have with each individual patient. That’s why, now more than ever – we must incorporate proper physical assessment skills and listening techniques into our daily practice. This seminar will help you improve your confidence, efficiency, and eliminate mistakes. We can guarantee that you will learn the right tools to improve your practice.

OUTLINE

Head-To-Toe Approach – Learn tips, tricks, and Tools to conduct a quick and precise head-to-toe assessment

• Use the most thorough approach to assess the patient
• Analyze baseline data and determine patient status changes
• Use these tips and tools to make your exam more efficient without missing any key clues
• Perform proper assessment skills: inspection, palpation and percussions.

Neurological Examination – Mastering the 6-In less time, you can get parts of a Neuro exam.

• How to Uncover the 6-Parts of a thorough Neurological Exam
• The ABCT Components for Mental Status
• Confusion: Key points and clues Assessment Method (CAM), Instrument and what results can be obtained
• Assess normal vs. abnormal findings to determine if there are any changes in mental status, motor, sensory, cerebellar, or reflex functions.
• How to spot diseases and danger signs by performing a physical exam
• LIVE PARTNER DEMOS – Practice with case studies, 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 and their locations to narrow down diagnosis

• Physical Assessment of the respiratory tract – Key points of normal anatomy to be reminded
• Lung sounds and identification of normal, abnormal, decreased, or absent breath
• Assessment Tactile Fremitus techniques, percussion, and lung auscultation
• How to interpret what you hear and how you should expect it to sound:
• Bronchial, Broncho-Vesicular, Vesicular Sounds of Breath
• Bronchophony and Egophony. Whispered Petroliloquy
• Death Rattle, Absent Sounds of Breath
• Learn the adventitious sounds of Crackles, Rhonchis, Stridor, Wheezes, and how to use them
• What Lung Sounds to Expect in Different Disease States
• LIVE PARTNER DEMOS – Practice with sounds: Listen and assess to learn

Cardiac Exam – Knowing the different murmurs, their presentation, sounds and location to accurately pinpoint the disease process

• Examining the mitral, tricupid, pulmonary and aortic valves.
• Skills, sequencing and Auscultation Sites
• A functional murmur has certain characteristics
• How can you identify?
• 7-Point classification
• What is the threshold for a murmur to become pathological?
• Methods to detect abnormal cardiac sounds
• LIVE PARTNER DEMOS – Practice and learn from examples

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OBJECTIVES

1. Examine the signs and causes of bronchial, vesicular, and bronchovesicular sounds.
2. Interpret pathophysiology, differential diagnoses for crackles and wheezes.
3. Discuss the management of restrictive vs. obstructive lung disease.
4. Take 6 minutes to do a thorough job.-Part neurological exam and report findings
5. Assess the primary causes of mental state changes in patients at highest risk for delirium and make quick interventions.
6. You can tell if abnormal S1 and S2 sounds in the heart are benign or pathological.
7. Assess whether murmurs that occur at both the systolic (or diastolic) end indicate cardiac disease.