After taking a history, the app prompts the CHW to review their Universal Safety Precautions needs. Universal safety precautions are medical procedures which needs the healthcare worker to avoid contact with patient’s bodily fluids or not transfer own or any infection as a result of clinical case evaluation, to the patient. These include such as washing of hands, wearing of protective clothing, decontamination of equipment and devices, proper, swift and clinically correct disposal of biomedical waste.
Then the CHW, being trained in systemic examination, identifies the location and the functioning to a particular part or organ involved and proceeds to a detailed physical examination as prompted by the app. A physical examination or a checkup is the process of examining the patient’s for any possible signs or symptoms of a medical condition. This simple yet effective process is a “Low hanging fruit” and together with History Taking, helps in determining the correct diagnosis for the right treatment. All this information or data then becomes part of the medical record of the patient.
For each set of common medical conditions there are a fixed and dynamic set of physical examinations prompts available. There are 140+ different variations of the physical examination protocols built into the app.
Uses:
Screening - Physical Examinations are part of medical screening or general health checkups where the patient is taken through specific checks to determine high priority conditions such as Hypertension, Diabetes , Cardio Vascular desieses etc. One can get himself or herself screened at either a medical facility or enroll for screening camps. The health status of any individual may not require a screening but would be benefical for an individual to underclarity on risk factors involved which would also include life style changes
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