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Abdominal Assessment
A short online course on Abdominal Assessment for remote health workers, which can be completed independently or as part of our Clinical Assessment Suite.
This short course can assist you to develop a systematic assessment approach to clients who present with abdominal symptoms. It can be completed as an individual course, or as part of our Clinical Assessment Suite, which features 11 other short courses/modules which each cover a different type of presentation.
What content is covered?
- A systematic assessment process that leads you to form a clinical impression of your client’s abdominal pain.
- How to gain a full description of the abdominal pain to help with differential diagnosis.
- The Abdominopelvic area: 4 quadrants and 9 regions that help you to sequence and report on your abdominal examination.
- Red flag symptoms: signs and indications for further investigation.
- Abdominal emergencies.
- Common pain presentations.
- Documenting your assessment.
- Communicating your assessment with others.