Medical examination

A medical examination is a procedure of diagnosis carried out for reasons for health. For example:

  • to diagnose Disease S
  • to measure the progression or the cure of the diseases
  • to confirm in somebody the absence of disease

Some are composed of simple a physical Examen, also called clinical examination : it requires only simple instruments between the hands of a Médecin, and can be realized in its cabinet. Others require equipment more sophisticated and/or the use of a sterile environment.

Some examinations require Test S on samples of fabric or the body liquids which will be sent to a medical Laboratoire for analysis. Some Test S chemical simple (as the measurement of pH of the urine) can be measured directly in the consulting room of the doctor. sometimes the possibility of a False-negative or false-positive must be confirmed by a setting in culture starting from samples.

Certain examinations can also be carried out on a person died within the framework of a Autopsie.

The medical examinations can be classified in two categories:

In general, the first requires an effraction of the skin more important than a simple venous puncture, can be unpleasant, requires sometimes a local Anesthésie or general, can require a hospitalization and comprises a certain number of side effects, even, of accident risk. The distinction between these two types of examination if is not sliced in a certain number of cases.

The compilation of the whole of the data of the medical examination constitutes the Medical file which can be handwritten or computerized.

Types of medical examinations

Examinations with the consulting-room

Any clinical examination begin with a interrogation from the patient, making it possible to determine:
  • the personal antecedents
    • : old diseases, old family examinations
    • : in the search of hereditary diseases
  • the reason for the consultation
  • the current Symptom S and their evolution, thus recalling the history of the disease
  • treatment current and passed, including vaccinations
  • lifestyle: catch or not of poisons (Tobacco, alcohol…), work, marital status, assumption of responsibility of a Social security or a Mutual .

The clinical examination includes/understands a inspection : the doctor looks at the stripped patient. He is supplemented by a palpation (search for painful points, abnormal masses of Adénopathie S (large ganglia), increased bodies of volume…). He continues by:

It can be supplemented according to the cases by one:

More invasive examinations which require sterile procedures

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The palpation of the pulses makes it possible to determine the heart rate and not the rate/rhythm, which is defined as the sequence of the various events of the cardiac cycle.

Examinations which require an analysis of laboratory

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  • blood examinations, whose for example

  • Test of DNA, test D ARN
  • sample of saddles
  • blood Gaz S

Examinations which require microscopy

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Examinations which require an medical equipment more sophisticated

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