Shadow Health Digital Clinical Experience Focused Exam: Cough Documentation
SUBJECTIVE DATA: Include what the patient tells you, but organize the information.
Chief Complaint (CC):
History of Present Illness (HPI):
Medications:
Allergies:
Past Medical History (PMH):
Past Surgical History (PSH):
Sexual/Reproductive History:
Personal/Social History:
Immunization History:
Significant Family History (Include history of parents, Grandparents, siblings, and children):
Review of Systems: From head-to-toe, include each system that covers the Chief Complaint, History of Present Illness, and History). Remember that the information you include in this section is based on what the patient tells you. You will only need to cover systems pertinent to your CC, HPI (N/A, UNKNOWN is not acceptable, make up the information if you need to). To ensure that you include all essentials in your case, refer to Chapter 2 of the Sullivan text.
General: Include any recent weight changes, weakness, fatigue, or fever, but do not restate HPI data here.
HEENT:
Respiratory:
Cardiovascular/Peripheral Vascular:
Psychiatric:
Neurological:
Lymphatics:
OBJECTIVE DATA: From head-to-toe, include what you see, hear, and feel when doing your physical exam. You only need to examine the systems that are pertinent to the CC, HPI, and History unless you are doing a total H&P. Do not use WNL or normal. You must describe what you see.
Physical Exam:
Vital signs: Include vital signs, ht, wt, temperature, and BMI and pulse oximetry
General: Include general state of health, posture, motor activity, and gait. This may also include dress, grooming, hygiene, odors of body or breath, facial expression, manner, level of conscience, and affect and reactions to people and things.
HEENT:
Respiratory: Always include this in your PE.
Cardiology: Always include the heart in your PE.
Lymphatics:
Psychiatric:
Diagnostics/Labs (Include any labs, x-rays, or other diagnostics that are needed to develop the differential diagnoses.)
ASSESSMENT: List your priority diagnosis(es). For each priority diagnosis, list at least 3 differential diagnoses, each of which must be supported with evidence and guidelines. For holistic care, you need to include previous diagnoses and indicate whether these are controlled or not controlled.
Sample Solution
A cough is an involuntary, abrupt evacuation of air from the lungs with a distinct and immediately identifiable sound. It fulfills the roles of defending the respiratory tract against noxious chemicals and preserving airway patency by eliminating excessive secretions from the airways, despite being the most common symptom of respiratory illnesses. The act of coughing up and spitting out the material produced in the respiratory system is known as expectoration or sputum production. Technique-In most cases, a thorough history, which is the most useful duty in the examination of patients with cough, will lead to a diagnosis of the reason.
