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Essential Skills for Cardiac Assessment by JordiMariano is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document provides guidance on evaluating patients presenting with chest pain, edema, or palpitations. It outlines the key components of the medical history to obtain including onset/timing/duration of symptoms, aggravating/relieving factors, relevant medical, family, social and review of systems history. Examination skills are reviewed including vital signs, heart and lung auscultation, abdominal examination, and checking for extremity edema. Differential diagnoses for common complaints are referenced.
- Author
- JordiMariano
- Language
- EN