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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Medical examination and medical diagnostics

Examination is an important factor, perhaps the main stage of the work of the therapist because it pretty much decide the success or failure of the treatment works: Working doctor may do good new findings are true and complete to the symptoms can be an accurate diagnosis and adequate, then the prognosis is that the new regulations, treatment and prevention for correctness.
This is a work:
Science: In addition to medical knowledge that all physicians are required to have full, there must be a listing of the man is a dialectical unity in which each department are organically related to each other, so not only single examination department that patients should always check the entire body.
Technique: Must regularized examination and examination techniques to detect it properly symptoms (eg, to hear the sound unusual in heart, lung, spleen or liver touching peek out from costal margin, or when type tendon reflexes ...)
None of the show, it was a work:
Politics: How meticulously thorough medical examination by a physician in addition to helping physicians detect disease properly reinforces the confidence of stable patients thought their pessimistic fears, giupho confidence in treatment in the cure this: essential elements for the treatment to be good.
Today, despite the progress and development of preclinical methods, the role of the clinical examination is important because it gives the direction from which the diagnostic designated as preclinical tests required, avoid making widespread or vice versa does not do the necessary tests. So medical examination should be carried out like?
How to conduct medical examinations
place of examination
It should be:
Clean, fresh air but avoid drafts.
Warm, especially in winter.
There is enough light.
Discreet, especially those where women used to examine patients.
means
In addition to the furniture necessary for the physician and patient visits to the sick bed is examined, where care needs to be equipped with a minimum of means:
Medical stethoscope.
Sphygmomanometer.
Tools for pressing the tongue: to visit the sick throat.
Reflex hammer and needle to neurological examination.
How fingers or gloves (doigtier) Rubber: for rectal or vaginal examination when necessary. If you have an extra flashlight to check the pupillary reflexes needed the better.
physician
It should be noted to dress: clothes dirty, angry black collar, long fingernails dirty, unkempt hair will reduce the confidence of the patient to the physician lot.

Attitudes need to intimate, warm to the patient at risk of exposure, easy revealed the secret of his problems. Avoid the attitude of patients misunderstand the physician "grace" for them.
When asked patients to use straightforward language, avoid using the word medicine that the disease is difficult to know (royal sure, hematuria ...) and especially patience to exploit the subjective symptoms of the disease, if necessary do not hesitate to ask questions or to change the way the questions to capture all of the patients.
When the doctor should have gentle style, meticulous, avoid rough, avoid sick day or more without the need for the most seriously ill. The physician, physician especially men, need to pay attention to the nature of the woman shy to ask and how to avoid the most indecent manner doctor too revealing, self-injure the patient's women, so they do not say what needed to diagnose and treat.
Upon receipt of the required objective symptoms and caution: there should be no prejudice before, especially for older patients, physicians are more likely to have thought the old disease recurrence. Need to appreciate the symptoms, especially the subjective symptoms of the disease: the identification, analysis, evaluation of symptoms that must be based on a scientific basis.
Be careful while talking with patients about their condition; in general, to think before talking to did not say what issues can make them fear, panic or pessimism with their patients; to explain to uplifting, thought for their stability assured treatment in the healing message.
For the families of patients, we can tell the truth in a certain range, that is, depending on the problem, depending on the person's relationship to the patient.
patients
Should be examined in a comfortable position. If health conditions permit, the patient should check the way to go.
Should reveal the need to check. Best of all, the sick men wearing only underwear when a medical examination if place to ensure adequate warmth. The sick woman should reveal part: chest, abdomen, and limbs ... In winter, Notes prompts the patient removed because scarf scarves can hide some very important issues in the neck: tumors borders, the jugular vein float, the cost-neck scar ...
Content doctor
After asking technical part history (see above), the doctor usually conducted in three parts:
Full body examination.
Check each department.
Check more waste.
Body Check
It should be observed:
Gait, standing by the patient:
After first contact with the patient, we can immediately notice a few ways and located, walking, standing by the patient immediately suggests to us a direction of certain diseases or syndromes:
How is "trigger", facing the dark side in patients with meningeal disease.
How high is the top or half-recumbent (Fowler position) of the patients dyspnea.
Getting stiff, body like a log of people with Parkinson's disease.
How di "grass" a convulsive hand to the chest of the patient paralyzed from the waist, can cramp.
How to walk hugging the right upper quadrant of the liver abscess patients.
The spirit of the disease:
Noting see patients in the state:
Awake: The disease can be patient self-reports, statements and answers are obvious questions of the physician.
Delirium: the patients are not identified and does not answer the question correctly, not only that the patient was in a state of panic, mumble, even when running or destroying wild. It is the mental condition of the patient:
Sort entered hepatic coma.
Any fever for what reasons, but the most common in our country is fierce bout of malaria.
Mental Illness.
Coma: the disease is not identified nor answer my question.
But here the patients do not panic, do not mumble but left more or less lost contact with the external environment, even in the case of coma:
The patient does not know the pain when pinched.
Do not swallow the water poured into their mouths.
Loss of corneal reflex.
Coma is a very serious incident, the consequences of infectious diseases and poisoning of many parts, should be examined carefully and ask discovered why.
General shape:
Need to identify the disease:
- Slim or fat, skinny means: The gaunt, sunken cheeks, the facial bones protruding, especially cheekbones. Ribs, scapula highlighted. Flat belly, belly skin commandments rang. Total weight less than the average weight of 20% (with an average weight of feces than 100 meters of height; eg, a 1m62 high, the average weight of 62 kg).
- Slim common in these cases:
Undernutrition by: Eating a lack of quality or quantity. Eating enough but the department does not use digest and absorb, esophageal, pyloric stenosis, chronic bowel disease, chronic pancreatitis ...). Eating relative but not enough to meet the needs of the body increases due to overwork or disease. Chronic diseases: tuberculosis, liver cirrhosis, cancer ... Some endocrine diseases: diabetes, Basedow.
- Obesity means:
Face swollen, bulging cheeks, chin droop. Stock usually not seen retracted. Limbs rounded and grooved. Abdominal skin with thick layers of fat and sagging to make the abdomen. Total weight is higher than the average weight of 15%.
- Fat normally are:
Nutritional Causes: The most common, especially when eating more and less active. Endocrine causes: Women of all age kinh.Nam world after losing testicles. Cushing's disease caused by pituitary or adrenal glands due to intensity.
Causes Mental: a sometimes occur due to strong mental trauma.

- High or low. Need to pay attention to two cases of disease:
The medium to medium high oversized alone or in combination added to the first phenomenon and expenses: this is huge disease (gigantisme), a disease of the pituitary gland.
The medium low and too small: as well as a case of pituitary disease, patients calculation (infantilisme).
The balance between these parts: often there is a certain balance between the parts of the body, head and limbs. In some pathological cases, we find that balance disappear:
To early disease (hydrocephalie): the first is to not match the entire body.
Acromegaly (acromegalie): head and especially the hands and feet are oversized, not commensurate with the expenditure and body rest.
Teo an amputation, a chi chi or both symmetric: common in neurological diseases such as amyotrophic the fiber column (sclerose laterale). Flute marrow disease (syringommylelie) and is the most common sequelae of poliomyelitis children (PAA). But when the patient's body:
Both parties chest unbalanced by a party effusion or pneumothorax as stretch or vice versa due to pleurisy thick and sticky traction as falling.
The color of skin and mucosa:
Some medical conditions shown on the color of the skin and mucous membranes such as:
- Skin and mucosal cyanosis: demonstrates the lack of oxygen normally found in:
Some congenital heart disease, chronic pulmonary heart disease and heart failure cases.
The lung disease causing breathing difficulty levels: bronchopneumonia in children, pneumothorax severe asthma.
The airway disease causing suffocation bar: bar almost paralyzed by diphtheria.
In these diseases, cyanosis cases appear in the environment, in the human eye diseases, acute cyanosis new to the place, even when the whole body.
In contrast, in some other disease, cyanosis confined to one area, for example in:
Inflammation of the arteries: cyanosis in the toes, fingers, sometimes the feet, hands or even an amputation so that the dominant artery.
Capillary vascular disorders: cyanosis all extremities especially the fingers.
- Skin and mucous membranes pale. Status pale sometimes evident on the countenances of the disease, but the secret to looking at the lining of the eyes, mucous membrane of mouth, tongue or hands feet. It is shown clinical acute or chronic anemia due to many reasons.
- Yellow skin and mucous membranes: the skin of patients with various forms of gold:
Golden straw: in cancer.
Yellow belly: in severe anemia.
Bright yellow more or less: by drinking plenty quinacrin or santonon. Sometimes there is the yellow pigment in the palms of the hands and feet.
In this situation, the current situation can only yellow skin or the palms, soles of the feet. By contrast in jaundice. Gold status can present both in the lining eyes, mouth, tongue: these are symptoms of a very valuable suggestions diagnosis, because yellow is an almost nonspecific symptoms of hepatobiliary system.
- Skin and mucosal gray (m LANO ermie): this is not a normal case of tanned outdoor workers, but also a case of having the disease pathology:
Addison's disease (Addison's disease).
Accumulation of melanin (Melannose de Richl).
- A pale skin, if that area has more cool feeling stinging pain when we must think carefully and find the cause of style.
Mucocutaneous condition:
Need findings:
- The skin lesions: detection purposes other skin diseases identified the need to pay attention to the scarring sequelae of certain diseases in the history of the disease and surgery, because the lesions are resolving It is the cause of the current turmoil as:
Scars do think music colon atopic workers.
Scars "moved climb" (shingles) on the chest, may be the cause of pain intercostal nerves now.
Scars caused by bullets in the chest towards the cause was thought to cough up blood now.
- The bleeding note: often a manifestation of blood diseases and expression in many forms:
Arrays ecchymosis (ecchymose).
Ban bleeding (purpura).
Dot bleeding (petechre).
- The exhaustion of water. Represented by:
Dry skin, warning rang even have patches of psoriasis.
The existence of the leopard skin wrinkles ssau.
Often seen in the following cases:
Severe diarrhea or diarrhea level takes a long time.
Severe nausea.
Fever, infection lasts.
- Status fluid: represented by: compliance with concave publications (soft line) or without pressing concave (hard line), to detect the face (especially the eyelids), in the leg ankle (look for signs of publications concave side of the tibia and ankle).
Often seen in the following cases:
Level or chronic glomerulonephritis, nephrotic patients grease.
heart Failure
Cirrhosis.
Undernutrition.
Be wet beriberi.
Artery or vein inflammation of lymph nodes.
System Status and hair coat:
There may be pathological phenomenon as follows:
- Too many men in fur or hair growth in places where no ordinary woman (beard): one case of adrenal disease intensity (Cushing).
- No hair growth or hair loss, hair loss. Expression of:
A condition can be debilitating disease caused by an infection or poisoning.
A spot disease of the skin and scalp.
An endocrine disorders: ovarian disorders, thyroid insufficiency.
Check each department
Often the doctor immediately should stay patient department, the question carefully braided initially associated with the review body will help us think about organ disease.
Then check the other parts, the first is the part related to physiological or anatomical parts with thin, then visit the rest of the parts and should go sequentially from top to bottom (top , neck, chest, abdomen, limbs ...) in order not to miss.
Back to search contents of each department, we do not speak carefully here, because there are separate articles in the latter case, we only emphasize the issues that need attention in every department including:
At the top:
In addition to comments skin, mucosa and skull, hair mentioned above, check:
12 cranial nerves (the program will tell nerve), especially if the person has a mental illness experience.
Teeth, tongue, throat: the program will tell digestion.
In stock:
Attention to:
Thyroid.
The scar in the neck or neck scar colon music.
Jugular vein: OC veins stand to be a manifestation of the right heart failure.
In the chest:
It should be observed:
Morphology and the operation of the chest to the rhythm of breathing.
The ribs and intercostal spaces.
Check the heart and lungs.
Do not forget the two breast and axillary lymph nodes.
In the stomach:
Morphology and activity of the abdominal wall under the breath.
Check belly general (discussed in the first chapter of) and the abdominal viscera.
Attention to the rectal and vaginal is a simple gesture made mandatory for all patients with pathological findings in the abdomen, especially in the lower abdomen.
In men, do not forget to check the penis, scrotum sex, spermatic cord, and the hernia hole.
In the limbs and spine:
Attention to:
Malformation or disfigurement of the limbs and spine by:
The spine is curved, hunchback or pure: a harsh pain in the spine, especially at the base of the spine to the wood, to make us think of a vertebral tuberculosis.
Sequelae of fractures and an old disease of bone.
The joints: one or more swollen joints, to make us think of arthritis as:
Rheumatic fever.
Chronic arthritis.
Lao joints.
Purulent inflammation of the joints.
The fingers and nails: nail "watch glass" means nail cupped round like a watch glass, is a manifest need attention. The phenomenon that at first alone, later combined with additional fingers to friends as drumstick to a symptom called Hippocrates finger instance:
Some congenital heart disease (disease Fallot).
Heart disease - chronic lung.
Chronic infections in organ, common in subacute endocarditis Oxle and chronic lung abscess or bronchiectasis, chronic infections.
Some cases of lung tumors: Pierre Marie syndrome.
Cholestatic cirrhosis Primary: Hannot disease.
After careful examination of the body and parts combined with thoughtful questions disease, we must never ending clinical examination by checking the weather and some waste can translate.
Check the weather Waste
This is only a preliminary review of clinical, should be supplemented by the results of preclinical testing of these substances. However, the preliminary remarks are great because it gives us right at the bedside of the factors necessary for diagnosis.
Urine:
Yellow slots: define for us a jaundice.
Red: We identified patients for blood in the urine.
Coating: could be a urinary tract infection.
Analysis:
Red blood slimy nose: dysentery syndrome.
Black as coffee grounds: suggest a gastrointestinal bleed.
sputum:
There rays and blood clots in the blood or hemoptysis.
Pus in the lung abscess.
Purulent sputum chocolate in lung abscess caused by amoeba.
Vomit:
You need to consider the composition and color vomit.
In the spirit as for the more waste, we can get some volume in the probe tips, depending on the clinical picture.
There pleural effusion or pericardial: Amniocentesis right pleural or pericardial.
Ascites, to tapping ascites.
Meningeal syndrome: to tapping cerebrospinal water.
Like the more waste, what this translates immediately with preliminary remarks on the bed, was able to make the correct diagnosis:
Amniocentesis pleural pus, making diagnosis even a purulent pleurisy; if pus-colored chocolate makes me think of the cause by amoeba.
Amniocentesis cerebrospinal see turbid water, make a diagnosis as soon as meningitis. By examined above, there are cases:
It can be diagnosed immediately, but not in sufficient detail.
But they have not even been able to have diagnosed that only a certain direction. Therefore need to use additional methods of subclinical.
The method of subclinical
The progress of science in all fields has contributed to the development of sub-clinical methods to help medical diagnosis more certain. The phuoong it more convenient, more accurate and sophisticated. The probe can subclinical against 4 types of purposes:
To identify morphological
Often, it is the method:
Radiology; projectors and shoot, shoot often or dye.
Soi organs.
Radioisotopes.
To identify lesions
This is the viscera biopsy (biopsy or better blind biopsy under the control of the eye) to remove a sample held the test.
Micro: find the lesion pathology, diagnosis is often worth the surest.
Biochemical model was applied in countries with scientific progress.
To find pathogens
Pathology tests mentioned above as well as a method to find the causative agent (biopsy of an enlarged lymph nodes for pathogens as cancer or tuberculosis, depending on the pathological anatomy with tumor cells or international giant cells of tuberculosis).
There's also another method to directly or indirectly:
Bacteria, viruses.
Parasite.
Mushrooms ...
In the humoral and more waste.
To probe the function
A large part of this approach is that the biochemical tests. Also the method used machinery (due to underlying metabolic exploration of thyroid function to probe ECG heart function ...) and more recently using the radioisotope method.
The necessity of subclinical
So far, no one has dared to deny the necessity of the method for practical clinical approach of this method of diagnosis helps to find:
It's accurate.
It's full.
And especially very early, when the disease is diagnosed while still in the preclinical period. But it is inevitable downside.
Disadvantages of subclinical
The validity of the method of subclinical depends on many factors:
Qualities of machinery or chemicals used in it.
How to obtain and ensure specimens from disease prevention to the test site.
Nheim accountability and professional competence of testing. So the method for preclinical us:
We need not rely on the clinical examination is indicated to the right to avoid making unnecessary spill has wasted chemicals, machinery and labor power of the test, just wasting disease is the blood thnah and blood of patients with fatigue when patients do not need.
Based on clinical need to identify these results, ie to compare the results of preclinical and clinical situations: if not appropriate then check again, both clinical and subclinical if necessary then repeat the test for subclinical.
In this way we obtain the correct documentation of clinical and subclinical, the factors necessary for us to go to the section diagnosis.
diagnose
The document clinical and subclinical above should be incorporated into the syndrome: a person may have one or more symptoms. Based on the syndrome that we will make the definitive diagnosis, differential diagnosis, diagnose the cause and assess prognosis.
In the diagnosis, need to respect some rules:
Must be based on the symptoms of the disease, clearly, clearly no one can deny, clinical and subclinical.
Consider first of all to those patients most often and must be based on the specific symptoms diagnostic value of this disease.
So try to find a diagnosis may include all of the symptoms and the patient's symptoms. If it can not be considered as new patients with 2 or 3 patients at the same time.
conclude
Diagnosis is a difficult task. Want to properly diagnose patients to get an attitude and preventive treatment appropriate, the physician should have:
Medical Knowledge fully comprehensive.
Thorough examination style, meticulous.
Scientific reasoning methods and dialectics.
The spirit of loving parents to their patients.

This is the fourth major requirement that each student must train yourself in the process in clinical practice.

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