Lesson 1Social and Behaviour History: Smoking, Drink, Work, Living, Exercise, Salt EatingThis part covers how to get a good social and behaviour history, including smoking, alcohol, job, surroundings exposure, home setup, food, exercise, and salt eating, and how these affect heart and lung risks.
Smoking past, pack-years, and stopping stageAlcohol drinking, checking, and adviceJob, dust, and chemical exposuresHome setup, heating, and wetnessBody movement, exercise, and limitsFood ways, salt eating, and weightLesson 2Warning Signs and Alarm Symptoms: Fainting, Chest Pain, Coughing Blood, Sudden Getting Worse, Low Blood PressureThis part explains spotting and checking warning symptoms like fainting, sudden chest pain, coughing blood, sudden shortness of breath, and low blood pressure, stressing time, linked features, and when to rush for emergency help.
Describing sudden chest pain and startChecking fainting, near-fainting, and fallingLooking at coughing blood amount and causesSudden shortness of breath and possible lung clotSpotting shock, low blood pressure, and poor blood flowLevels for rushing and emergency sendingLesson 3Talking Skills and Recording: Open Questions, Clear Follow-up Questions, Safety Advice and Noting Key Times and AnswersThis focuses on building trust, using open and clear questions, checking patient worries, summing up, safety advice, and properly recording symptoms, times, and answers in a clear, legal medical note.
Organising the heart-lung talkUsing open questions to get the storyClear follow-up questions for main symptomsChecking understanding and setting shared plansSafety advice, warning signs, and check-upProper, time-noted medical recordingLesson 4Past Health Checks: High Blood Pressure, Heart Vessel Block, Valve Problems, Rheumatic Fever, Long-term Lung Disease, Sleep Breathing Stop, Low Blood, Kidney DiseaseThis covers aimed questions about heart and lung related illnesses, including high blood pressure, vessel block and valve issues, rheumatic fever, long-term lung disease, sleep breathing stop, low blood, and kidney disease, and how these shape risks and possible diagnoses.
Making clear past heart diagnoses and treatmentsNoting high blood pressure time and controlPast of rheumatic fever and valve effectsLong-term lung disease, COPD, and asthma detailsSleep breathing stop, fat breathing issue, and machine useKidney disease, low blood, and heart-kidney linksLesson 5Body System Symptom Checks: Cough, Wheeze, Chest Pain, Heart Beats, Swelling Pattern, Urine ProblemsThis guides system-based checking for lung, heart, and kidney symptoms, including cough, wheeze, chest pain, heart beats, swelling pattern, urine changes, and body-wide features that sharpen possible diagnoses.
Lung check: cough, spit, and wheezeHeart check: chest pain and heart beatsOuter swelling pattern and spreadNight urine, low urine, and kidney block signsBody symptoms: fever, weight drop, tirednessLinking system findings to possible diagnosesLesson 6Aimed Symptom History: Shortness of Breath Start, Getting Worse, Sitting Up Breathing, Night Sudden Breath, Effort ToleranceThis teaches organised checking of shortness of breath, sitting up breathing, night sudden breath, effort tolerance, cough, and linked symptoms, focusing on start, getting worse, causes, and daily life effect.
Start and getting worse of shortness of breath timeSitting up breathing and night sudden breathEffort tolerance and activity limitsCough, spit, and wheeze descriptionChest tight, pain, and heart beatsEffect on sleep, work, and daily lifeLesson 7Family History and Risk Factors: Early Heart Vessel Disease, Heart Muscle Weakness, Blood Clot TendencyThis covers getting family history of early heart vessel disease, heart muscle weakness, heart rhythm issues, blood clot tendency, and sudden death, and mixing family and shared life risks into risk levels.
Early heart vessel block in familyInherited heart muscle weakness and rhythm issuesFamily history of vein blood clotsSudden unexplained death and rhythm problemsShared life and surrounding factorsWhen to think of family advice sendingLesson 8Medicine Check and Following: Prescribed, Over-counter, Plant-based, Following Barriers, Recent ChangesThis explores organised medicine history taking, including prescribed, over-counter and plant drugs, recent changes, following barriers, side effects, and links relevant to heart-lung disease and worsening.
Listing all prescribed and over-counter medicinesFinding heart-active and lung drugsRecent medicine changes and worseningChecking following, beliefs, and habitsSpotting bad effects and drug linksInhaler way and device problems
