CORE SKILLS:

A set of must-know PE skills that have to be done on ALL patients

General General appearance, level of consciousness, orientation
Survey
Vital Signs - blood pressure
- calculate BMI
- heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature
Skin Skin inspection/general survey
Upper - Inspect nails, hands, arms and joints.
extremities - Palpate radial pulses on the wrists at the same time.
HEENT - Inspect the region of the puncta, conjunctiva and sclera.
- Inspect the cornea and lens, using a penlight
- inspection of oropharynx and dentition
- lymph node palpation
Heart - PMI
- cardiac auscultation with diaphragm and bell
Chest/Lungs - Thorax inspection
- Chest percussion posteriorly
- chest auscultation anteriorly and posteriorly
Abdomen - abdominal inspection
- abdominal auscultation in one quadrant
- percuss in all quadrants
- palpate lightly and deeply in all quadrants
Extremities - inspection of extremities and joints
- palpate for edema
- palpate posterior tibial or dorsalis pedis pulses