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1
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End of Bed:

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  • Conscious level
  • Distressed, pain or breathing problems
  • Bedside O2, vomit bowel, sputum pot or meds
2
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Hands

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Tar Staining
Nails - Bed colour, pitting, splinter haemorrhages, leuconychia, koilonychia, cyanosis or anaemia
Clubbing
Capillary Refill
Joints: Deformed or Swollen
Movement - Make a fist and then straighten (look for pain)
Muscle Wasting
Palms - stretch palmar creases for colour
Temp & Sweat
Contractures (Dupuytren’s)
Tremors (Fine/Coarse/Flapping)

3
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Arms

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Radial Pulse & Resp Rate
Joint Deformity
Tattoos/Bruising/Pigmentation/Rashes
Spider Naevi
Scars or Wounds
Venepuncture marks
Hydration
4
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Face

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General - Symmetry, colour, hair distribution
Specific Facies - Acromegaly
Ears - shape of pinna + Swellings
Eyes - Pupils, Sclera (jaundice/redness), Conjunctivae, Symmetry
Lips - Colour (cyanosis), Angular Stomatitis
Buccal Mucosa - Pen torch to check for ulceration
Tonsils - Wooden spatula to depress tongue
Gum margins and dentition
Tongue - Size, shape, texture, movement, colour, moistness

5
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Lymph nodes

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Supraclavicular
Anterior Cervical Chain
Submandibular
Submental
Pre-auricular
Post-auricular
Occipital 
Post-Cervical Chain
6
Q

Anterior Chest

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Skin lesions e.g. Spider Naevi
Scars
Gynaecomastia (men)

7
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Lower Limb

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Skin - colour, ulceration, hair distribution or varicose veins (soles of feet)
Temperature
Swelling (particularly pitting oedema)
Deformities
Swollen joints or skin thickening
Toe movement (curl toes)