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    OSCE Checklist - Renal System Examination

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    This document provides a checklist for examining the renal system during a patient assessment. The exam involves inspecting and examining the patient's hands, arms, face, eyes, mouth, neck, chest, abdomen, and lower limbs to evaluate for any signs related to renal function or disease. Physical findings like bruising, skin changes, pulse, blood pressure, jugular vein distension, heart and lung sounds, abdominal tenderness, and edema are assessed. The examiner is also expected to summarize key findings, recommend additional tests if needed, and suggest possible diagnoses.

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    This document provides a checklist for examining the renal system during a patient assessment. The exam involves inspecting and examining the patient's hands, arms, face, eyes, mouth, neck, chest, abdomen, and lower limbs to evaluate for any signs related to renal function or disease. Physical findings like bruising, skin changes, pulse, blood pressure, jugular vein distension, heart and lung sounds, abdominal tenderness, and edema are assessed. The examiner is also expected to summarize key findings, recommend additional tests if needed, and suggest possible diagnoses.

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    This document provides a checklist for examining the renal system during a patient assessment. The exam involves inspecting and examining the patient's hands, arms, face, eyes, mouth, neck, chest, abdomen, and lower limbs to evaluate for any signs related to renal function or disease. Physical findings like bruising, skin changes, pulse, blood pressure, jugular vein distension, heart and lung sounds, abdominal tenderness, and edema are assessed. The examiner is also expected to summarize key findings, recommend additional tests if needed, and suggest possible diagnoses.

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    OSCE Checklist - Renal System Examination

    1 Washes hands

    2 Introduces themselves & confirms patient details

    3 Explains examination & gains consent

    4 Positions and exposes patient appropriately

    5 Performs general inspection

    6 Inspects hands (asterixis, pinprick marks, Muehrke’s lines, gouty tophi)

    7 Inspects arms (excoriation, bruising, AV fistula)

    8 Assesses radial pulse

    9 Offers to measure blood pressure (not on the side of an AV fistula)

    10 Inspects face (uraemic complexion, skin cancers, Cushingoid facial features, hypertrichosis)

    11 Inspects eyes (conjunctival pallor, calcification of cornea, peri-orbital oedema)

    12 Inspects mouth (gingival hypertrophy, uraemia fetor)

    13 Assesses JVP

    14 Inspects neck (dialysis catheter, scars)

    15 Inspects chest (skin cancers, warts, excoriation, bruising)

    16 Percusses chest wall

    17 Palpates apex beat

    18 Auscultates heart sounds

    19 Auscultates lung bases

    20 Inspects abdomen

    21 Performs abdominal palpation (light then deep)

    22 Ballots kidneys

    23 Assesses for shifting dullness

    24 Auscultates for renal bruits

    25 Palpates sacrum and lower limbs to assess for oedema

    26 Thanks patient & washes hands

    27 Accurately summarises salient findings

    28 Suggests appropriate further investigations

    29 Suggests appropriate differential diagnosis

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