Lesson 1Social and Behaviour History: Smoking, Drink, Job, Living, Exercise, Salt EatingThis looks at how to get a good social and behaviour history, covering smoking, alcohol, work, surroundings, home life, food, exercise, and salt, and how these affect heart and lung risks.
Smoking past, pack-years, stopping stageAlcohol use, checks, adviceJob, dust, chemical contactsHome setup, heating, wetnessBody movement, exercise, limitsFood ways, salt use, weightLesson 2Warning Signs and Danger Symptoms: Fainting, Chest Pain, Coughing Blood, Sudden Getting Worse, Low Blood PressureThis explains spotting and checking warning symptoms like fainting, sudden chest pain, coughing blood, quick shortness of breath, and low pressure, stressing time, linked signs, and when to rush for emergency help.
Describing sudden chest pain and startChecking fainting, near-fainting, fallingLooking at blood cough amount and causesSudden breath trouble and lung clot suspectSpotting shock, low pressure, poor flowLevels for rushing and emergency sendLesson 3Talking Skills and Note-Keeping: Open Questions, Clear Follow-Ups, Safety Advice and Recording Times and AnswersThis focuses on building trust, using open and direct questions, checking patient worries, summing up, safety advice, and properly noting symptoms, times, and answers in a clear medical record for law.
Setting up the heart-lung talkUsing open questions for storyDirect questions for main symptomsChecking know and shared plansSafety advice, warning tips, follow-upProper, time-noted medical notesLesson 4Past Health Checks: High Blood Pressure, Heart Blockage, Valve Problems, Rheumatic Fever, Lung Disease, Sleep Breathing Stop, Low Blood, Kidney TroubleThis covers aimed questions on heart and lung related illnesses, like high pressure, blockage and valve issues, rheumatic fever, lung disease, sleep stop, low blood, and kidney problems, and how they affect risk and possible diagnoses.
Clearing old heart diagnoses and fixesNoting high pressure time and controlPast rheumatic fever and valve effectsLong lung illness, COPD, asthma infoSleep stop, fat breathing trouble, machine useKidney illness, low blood, heart-kidney linksLesson 5Body Part Symptom Checks: Cough, Wheeze, Chest Pain, Heart Beats, Swelling Places, Urine SignsThis guides checks for lung, heart, and kidney symptoms, like cough, wheeze, chest pain, fast beats, swelling pattern, urine changes, and body signs that help narrow down diagnoses.
Lung check: cough, spit, wheezeHeart check: chest pain, beatsSide swelling pattern and placesNight urine, low urine, kidney block signsBody signs: heat, weight drop, tirednessLinking body finds to diagnosesLesson 6Aimed Symptom History: Breath Shortness Start, Getting Worse, Sitting Up Breath, Night Sudden Breath, Effort LimitThis teaches organised checking of breath shortness, sitting breath, night sudden breath, effort limit, cough, and linked symptoms, focusing on start, worsening, causes, and daily life effect.
Start and worsening of breath timelineSitting breath and night sudden breathEffort limit and activity blockCough, spit, wheeze descriptionChest tight, pain, beatsEffect on sleep, work, daily lifeLesson 7Family Past and Risks: Early Heart Trouble, Heart Muscle Weak, Blood Clot TendencyThis covers getting family history of early heart trouble, heart muscle issues, beat problems, clot tendency, and sudden death, and mixing family and shared life risks into risk levels.
Early heart blockage in familyInherited heart muscle and beat issuesFamily blood clot historySudden no-cause death and beat problemsShared life and surround factorsWhen to send for family advice referralLesson 8Medicine Check and Following: Prescribed, Over Counter, Herbs, Follow Blocks, Recent ChangesThis looks at organised medicine history, covering prescribed, over counter and herb drugs, recent changes, follow blocks, side effects, and links to heart-lung illness and worsening.
Listing all prescribed and over counter medsFinding heart and lung active drugsRecent med changes and worseningChecking follow, beliefs, habitsSpotting bad effects and drug linksInhaler way and tool problems
