Patient ResearchLaajuus (4 cr)

Objective

Objectives

• Students will know how to interact with and interview the person to be examined
• Students will understand the functions of vital organs in the human body
• Students will be familiar with clinical examination methods and their principles

Content

Contents
• Interaction and communication competence
• Clinical examination of a patient following the ABCDE principles
• Key methods for examining people: interview, anamnesis, inspection, palpation, auscultation, percussion, observation and indicators
• Preconditions of good clinical examinations and their implementation: general condition, breathing, circulation, consciousness, excretion, musculoskeletal system, skin
• Patient monitoring, recording an ECG and basics of interpretation