While your partner completes the patient history, you perform a secondary assessment. This portion of the physical assessment is completed by inspection,palpation, auscultation and percussion.
Primary Assessment- It is the assessment done to find out any life threatening condition that may be present in the body. It deals with identifying immediate life threatening situations.
Secondary assessment- It is the assessment done after the to provide more information about the patient to conduct physical exam by interviewing, monitoring vital signs like bony and soft tissue palpation, special tests, circulation and neurological tests.
The physical assessment in secondary assessment includes inspection, palpation, auscultation and percussion.
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