• Understand the role of a medical history in making a clinical diagnosis

its very important to have each bit of information from a patient as the symptoms they are having with a certain drug/medication could even be classed as a side effect for example think about ACE inhibitors causing a Persistent cough due to bradykinin build up compared with a persistent cough without medication. its important to establish these factors to check if things are corrolating!!

remember…

Site

Onset

Character

Radiation

Associated symptoms

Timing

Exacebators

Severity (1-10)

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• To demonstrate an understanding of specific respiratory questions

there are 7 main respiratory question types to cover

chest pain CATS

Dyspnoea DO

Cough COUGH

Sputum SOMETIMES