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GENERAL PHYSICAL EXAMINATION  & CVS

GENERAL PHYSICAL EXAMINATION

General appearance
Young ( ) / Old ( ) Healthy ( ) /ill ( ) /anxious looking ( )
Physique
Normal ( ) Unusually tall ( ) Short ( ) Obese ( ) Thin ( ) Wasted ( ) Puffy ( )
Consciousness
Alert ( ) Oriented ( ) Confused ( ) Drowsy ( ) Unconscious ( )
Posture or Attitude
        Comfortable ( )
        Dyspnic
            While lying in bed ( )
            Lying propped up ( )
            Sitting up or bending forward ( )
            Supraclavicular ( )\intercostal ( ) Indrawing ( )
            In pain ( ) lying still ( )
            Writhing in bed ( )
Any specific odor from patient
Fruity (acetone) ( ) Fetor Hepaticus ( )
Vital Signs
    Pulse - Rate........ (per minute) Rhythm...........
    BP ............... (mmHg) Palpatory.......... Auscultatory...........
    Temperature ( ) F / C
    Respiratory rate ................
Hands
Shape.................. Short metacarpals ( ) Syn ( )/Poly ( ) Dactyly
Tremors ( ) ............. Carpal spasm ( )
Size......... normal ( ) OR Broad ( ) Tattoo marks ( )
Nails
Pallor ( )     Clubbing ( )     Pitting of nails ( )     Cyanosis ( )     Splinter hemorrhages ( )
Beau's lines ( )     Oncholysis ( )     Meas lines ( )     Jaundice ( )     Koilonychia ( )
Leukonychia ( )     Terry's nails ( )
Fingers
Oslers nodes ( )         Bouchard's nodes ( )          Heberdons's nodes ( )
Joint swelling ( )         Arachnodactyly ( )          Xanthomas ( )          Ulcers at the finger end ( )
Gouty tophi ( )
Palms
Pallor ( )         Palmer erythema ( )          Sweating ( )          Scratch marks ( )
Duputyren's contracture ( )         Asterixis ( )          Bruising ( )          Simian crease ( )
Janeway's lesions ( )
Face
General appearance- sallow appearance ( )     Moon like face ( )          Pink puffer ( )
Blue bloater ( )                  Expressionless face ( )         Peaches & cream appearance ( )
Pallor ( )                            Periorbital puffiness ( )         Loss of outer 1/3 of eye brows ( )
Proptosis ( )                       Ptosis ( )     Xanthelasmas ( )          Yellowness of lower conjunctiva ( )
Pallor of lower conjunctiva ( )                      Yellowness of sclera ( )     Rash ( )
Bluish tinged sclera ( )       Hirsutism ( )          Alopecia ( )                  Baldness ( )
Any vesicles ( )                  Spider nevi ( )       Enlarged parotid gland ( )
Any abnormal pigmentation of the lips ( ) / Face ( )                          Cheilosis (Lips) ( )
Angular stomatitis ( )
Tongue
Abnormally large tongue ( )         Dryness ( )          Pallor ( )/ Cyanosis ( )
Any abnormal pigmentation ( )         Loss of papillae ( )         Redness ( ) <on dorsal surface>
Yellowness ( ) <undersurface>
Neck
    Thyroid
            Inspection ..............................
            Palpation ..............................
            Percussion (retrosternal thyroid) ..............................
            Auscultation ..............................
            Pamberton's sign ..............................
Neck vessels
            Level of JVP .............................., Venous pulsations ( )
            Dancing carotids ( ) Carotid shudder ( ) Carotid bruit ( )
Lymph nodes
            Submental ( )          Submendibular ( )          Parotid ( )
            Pre auricular ( )       Post auricular ( )           Ant /Post cervical ( )
            Occipital ( )            Supraclavicular ( )          Scalene nodes ( )
Lymphnode
Features:
No .......... Site .......... Size .......... Consistency ..........
Mobility.......... Matted .......... Discrete ..........
Adherent to Skin .......... (Adherent to underlying structures) .......... Tenderness ..........
Discharge .......... /Sinuses ..........
Breast examination
Right
Symmetry .......... Localswelling ..........
( describe features of a mass) see the box below
Left
Symmetry .......... Localswelling ..........
( describe features of a mass) see the box below
Skin-dimpling or Teathering ( ) right ( ) left
Nipples-Retracted ( ) ( )
Discharge ( ) ( )
Axillary tail ................... .....................
Regional lymph nodes
Axillary ................... .....................
Supraclavicular ................ .....................
Axilla
Axillary hair ..................
Lymph nodes Ant ( ) Post ( ) Lat ( ) Med ( )
Apical ( ) Central ( )
Groin
Pubic hair .....................
Inguinal lymph nodes ( )
Testicular atrophy ( )
Presacral edema ( )
Hernial orifices...............
Shin
Ulceration ( )         Abnormal pigmentation ( )          Loss of hair ( )
Feet
Clubbing ( ) Koilonychia ( ) Cyanosis ( )
Loss of hair ( ) Edema ( ) Interdigital clefts---Athelet's foot ( )

Features of a mass
Site.............. Size .......... Shape ............
Consistency------ Cystic ( ) Soft ( ) Firm ( ) Hard ( )
Surface----- Smooth ( ) Irregular ( ) Nodular ( )
Edge ......... Tenderness ( ) Movement with respiration ( ) Mobile ( )/ Fix ( ) limits ...........
Bimanuallypalpable ( ) Thrill ( ) Transillumination ( ) Pulsatile ( )
Skin fixation ( ) Fluctuation ( )


CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
Pulse
Rate ........... Rhythm ........... Vol ........... Character ...........
Condition of vessel wall ...........
Comparison with other pulses...........
Radio radial delay ( ) Radiofemoral delay ( )
Other features
Dancing carotids ( ) Pistol shots ( ) Capillary pulsations ( )
Digital throbbing ( ) Auscultation of major arteries any bruit ( )

INSPECTION
a) Chest deformity     Pectus excavatum ( )      Pectus carinatum ( )     Scoliosis ( )
b) Scar on chest-sternal ( )              Lateral Thoracotomy scar ( )
c) Pulsations              Apex beat ( )      Pulsations--- Along left para sternal border ( )
In-- pulmonary area ( ) Suprasternal notch ( ) Epigastrium ( )
d) Prominent veins ( )

PALPATION
        1) Apex beat ........... a) site ........... b) character ...........
        Tapping ( )     Heaving ( )      Illsustained ( )/well sustained ( )
        Normal ( )
        2) Right ventricular heave ( )
        3) Left ventricular heave ( )
        4) Palpable heart sound ( )
        5) Thrill ( )
        6) Palpable pericardial rub ( )
        7) Epigastric thud ( )

PERCUSSION
Area of cardiac dullness increased ( )     or      Decreased ( )

AUSCULTATION
Heart sounds
        a) Intensity s1 ........... , s2 ...........
        b) Splitting of s2 ( )
        c) 3rd & 4th heart sounds ...........
        d) Gallop s3, s4 ...........
Other sounds
        Opening snap ( )          Ejection systolic clicks ( )          Mid systolic click ( )
        Prosthetic valve ( )
Murmers
        Timing ...........          Grade ...........          Site of max. intensity ...........      Radiation ...........
        Character ...........      Pitch ...........           Effect of respiration ...........      Effect of posture ...........
        Pericardial rub ( )


 

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