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Hands-On Physical Assessment: More Patients, Less Time

OUTLINE

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

Assess the patient using the most comprehensive approach
Evaluate baseline and identify patient status changes
Devise tips and tools to perform a more efficient exam without missing key clues
Conduct proper assessment skills - inspection, palpation, percussions, auscultation

Neurological Exam - Mastering the 6-Part components of a Neuro exam in less time

Unraveling the 6-Part components of a thorough Neurological Examination
ABCT Components of Mental Status
Key points and clues of using Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) Instrument and what can be diagnosed as a result
Evaluate an efficient and accurate assessment of normal vs. abnormal findings for: altered mental status, cranial nerves, motor, sensory, cerebellar functions, reflexes
Danger Signs for abnormal findings and how to identify diseases by physical examination
LIVE PARTNER DEMOS: Practice with case studies and 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 system - key points of normal anatomy to remember
Identification of normal, abnormal, decreased or absent breath and lung sounds
Assessment and techniques of Tactile Fremitus, percussion, lung auscultation
Interpreting what you are hearing and what you should expect to hear:
Bronchial, Broncho-vesicular, Vesicular Breath Sounds
Bronchophony, Egophony, Whispered Petroliloquy
Death Rattle, Absent Breath Sounds
Learning the adventitious sounds like Crackles, Rhonchi, Stridor, Wheezes and what to do with them
What Lung Sounds to expect in different disease states
LIVE PARTNER DEMOS: Practice with sounds: Listen, assess, and learn

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

Examination of mitral, tricuspid, pulmonary, and aortic
Auscultation sites, sequencing and skills
Characteristics of a functional murmur
How to identify?
7-point classification
When does a murmur become pathologic?
Strategies for detection of abnormal cardiac sounds
LIVE PARTNER DEMOS: Practice and learn with examples

OBJECTIVES

Assess where and why vesicular, bronchovesicular and bronchial sounds can be normal or abnormal and the significance of the abnormalities.
Interpret pathophysiology and differential diagnoses for crackles, wheezes, rhonchi and rubs.
Discuss management of obstructive vs. restrictive lung disease.
Practice a thorough 6-part neurological exam and document findings.
Evaluate primary causes of mental status changes and patients most at risk for delirium for quick intervention.
Distinguish whether abnormal S1 and S2 heart sounds are pathological or benign.
Determine whether systolic and diastolic murmurs indicate cardiac disease.

Program Information

Outline

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

Assess the patient using the most comprehensive approach
Evaluate baseline and identify patient status changes
Devise tips and tools to perform a more efficient exam without missing key clues
Conduct proper assessment skills - inspection, palpation, percussions, auscultation

Neurological Exam - Mastering the 6-Part components of a Neuro exam in less time

Unraveling the 6-Part components of a thorough Neurological Examination
ABCT Components of Mental Status
Key points and clues of using Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) Instrument and what can be diagnosed as a result
Evaluate an efficient and accurate assessment of normal vs. abnormal findings for: altered mental status, cranial nerves, motor, sensory, cerebellar functions, reflexes
Danger Signs for abnormal findings and how to identify diseases by physical examination
LIVE PARTNER DEMOS: Practice with case studies and 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 system - key points of normal anatomy to remember
Identification of normal, abnormal, decreased or absent breath and lung sounds
Assessment and techniques of Tactile Fremitus, percussion, lung auscultation
Interpreting what you are hearing and what you should expect to hear:
Bronchial, Broncho-vesicular, Vesicular Breath Sounds
Bronchophony, Egophony, Whispered Petroliloquy
Death Rattle, Absent Breath Sounds
Learning the adventitious sounds like Crackles, Rhonchi, Stridor, Wheezes and what to do with them
What Lung Sounds to expect in different disease states
LIVE PARTNER DEMOS: Practice with sounds: Listen, assess, and learn

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

Examination of mitral, tricuspid, pulmonary, and aortic
Auscultation sites, sequencing and skills
Characteristics of a functional murmur
How to identify?
7-point classification
When does a murmur become pathologic?
Strategies for detection of abnormal cardiac sounds
LIVE PARTNER DEMOS: Practice and learn with examples

Objectives

Assess where and why vesicular, bronchovesicular and bronchial sounds can be normal or abnormal and the significance of the abnormalities.
Interpret pathophysiology and differential diagnoses for crackles, wheezes, rhonchi and rubs.
Discuss management of obstructive vs. restrictive lung disease.
Practice a thorough 6-part neurological exam and document findings.
Evaluate primary causes of mental status changes and patients most at risk for delirium for quick intervention.
Distinguish whether abnormal S1 and S2 heart sounds are pathological or benign.
Determine whether systolic and diastolic murmurs indicate cardiac disease.

Target Audience

Nurses, and other Healthcare Professionals.

Copyright : 04/21/2017

Understanding Pathophysiology: Its Direct Impact on Patient Care

Program Information

Target Audience

Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapists/Physical Therapist Assistants, Physician Assistants, Respiratory Care Practitioners and other Healthcare Professionals

Objectives

Evaluate clinical examples to explain the statement: "Virtually all human disease is 'autoimmune' in nature."
Analyze an effective method to review options in pharmacologic therapy for any condition.
Plan for the self-destructive spiral of progressive chronic heart failure.
Determine how the statin drugs significantly reduce a person's risk of cardiovascular disease (MI and stroke), regardless of the serum cholesterol level.
Differentiate the mechanism underlying death in asthma and a way to prevent it.
Apply the "Three Question Approach" to interpretation of arterial blood gases.
Distinguish the "common mechanism" for shock, regardless of the initial cause.

Outline

Endocrine and Metabolic Problems

Pituitary disorders
Hypoglycemia
Free radicals — Essential in health, deadly in disease
Diabetic ketoacidosis
Apoptosis
Adrenal gland dysfunction
Addison’s disease
Jaundice
Implications of hormones
Thyroid disorders - Mechanism of onset affects treatment

Cardiovascular and Renal Problems

Starling’s Law - Normal capillary flow
Heart failure
Relationship between cardiac diseases and hypertension
Unraveling hypertension
Current concept on cardiogenic shock
Atherosclerosis - The role of inflammation
Anaphylaxis
Acid-base disorders

Respiratory Problems

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations
Obstructive lung diseases affecting the mechanics of lung ventilation
Sudden death in asthma
Acute lung failure/ARDS
Arterial blood gases - Made simple

Shock

Common mechanisms of all types of shock
The cardinal role of mediators in shock
Newer therapies based on current pathophysiological understanding
End points of resuscitation
What type of shock is this?

The Immune System

Inflammation - Acute phase response
Systemic inflammatory response
Infection – Part of a bigger picture
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
Stress reaction
Autoimmune diseases