Lesson 1Social and Behavior History: Smoking, Drink, Work, Living Place, Exercise, Salt EatingThis lesson shows how to get key info on social and behavior things like smoking, drinking, work, surroundings, home setup, food, exercise, and salt, and how they affect heart and lung risks in patients.
Smoking past, pack-years, and quitting stageDrinking amount, checking, and adviceWork, dust, and chemical dangersHome setup, heating, and wetnessBody movement, exercise, and limitsFood ways, salt eating, and weightLesson 2Danger Signs and Warning Symptoms: Fainting, Chest Pain, Coughing Blood, Sudden Getting Worse, Low Blood PressureThis part explains spotting and asking about danger signs like fainting, sudden chest pain, coughing blood, quick shortness of breath, and low pressure, focusing on how long, other signs, and when to rush for help.
Describing sudden chest pain and startChecking fainting, near-fainting, and fallingLooking at coughing blood amount and causesSudden breath trouble and possible lung clotSpotting shock, low pressure, and poor blood flowLevels for rushing and emergency sendLesson 3Talking Skills and Writing Down: Open Questions, Clear Follow-up Questions, Safety Advice and Noting Key Times and AnswersThis lesson builds good relations, using open and pointed questions, finding patient worries, summing up, giving safety tips, and writing symptoms, times, and answers clearly for legal records.
Setting up the heart-lung talkUsing open questions to get the storyPointed questions for main symptomsChecking understanding and setting shared plansSafety tips, danger advice, and check-backClear, time-noted medical writingLesson 4Past Health Questions: High Blood Pressure, Heart Blockage, Valve Problems, Rheumatic Fever, Lung Disease, Sleep Breathing Stop, Low Blood, Kidney TroubleThis covers asking about heart and lung related past illnesses like high pressure, blockage disease, valve issues, rheumatic fever, lung blockage, sleep stop, low blood, and kidney problems, and how they affect risks and possible diagnoses.
Clearing old heart diagnoses and fixesNoting high pressure time and controlPast rheumatic fever and valve effectsLong lung trouble, blockage, and wheeze detailsSleep stop, fat breathing issue, and machine useKidney trouble, low blood, and heart-kidney linksLesson 5Body System Symptom Checks: Cough, Wheeze, Chest Pain, Heart Beats Fast, Swelling Pattern, Urine ChangesThis guides checking symptoms for lungs, heart, and kidneys like cough, wheeze, chest pain, fast beats, swelling way, urine shifts, and body signs that help narrow down possible causes.
Lung check: cough, spit, and wheezeHeart check: chest pain and fast beatsSwelling pattern and spreadNight urine, low urine, and kidney block signsBody signs: fever, weight drop, tirednessLinking body findings to possible causesLesson 6Focused Symptom Story: Breath Shortness Start, Getting Worse, Sitting Up Breath, Night Sudden Breath, Effort LimitThis teaches asking in order about breath shortness, sitting up breath, night sudden breath, effort limit, cough, and other signs, looking at start, worsening, triggers, and daily life effect.
Start and worsening of breath shortness timeSitting up breath and night sudden breathEffort limit and activity blockCough, spit, and wheeze descriptionChest tight, pain, and fast beatsEffect on sleep, work, and daily lifeLesson 7Family Past and Risks: Early Heart Trouble, Heart Muscle Weak, Blood Clot TendencyThis covers asking family past for early heart trouble, heart muscle issues, beat problems, clot tendency, and sudden death, and adding family genes and shared life risks to sort dangers.
Early heart vessel block in familyInherited heart muscle and beat channel issuesFamily blood clot in veins pastSudden no-cause death and beat problemsShared life and surround factorsWhen to send for gene adviceLesson 8Medicine Check and Following: Prescribed, Over-counter, Plant-based, Follow Blocks, Recent ShiftsThis looks at full medicine history taking, including doctor-given, shop-bought and plant meds, recent shifts, follow blocks, side harms, and mixes important for heart-lung trouble and worsening.
Listing all doctor and shop medicinesFinding heart-active and lung medsRecent medicine shifts and worseningChecking follow, beliefs, and habitsSpotting bad effects and medicine mixesInhaler way and tool problems
