Checklist
Wash hands, introduce yourself, consent patient.
- OBSERVATION
- Body habitus
- Appropriateness of warm/cool clothing
- Sweating/Lethargy
- HANDS
- Tremor
- Pallor
- Warmth/dryness of skin
- Pulse
- VITALS
- NECK
- Palpate thyroid – tender, fixed or mobile mass
- Palpate with swallowing – attached to cricothyroid cartilage
- Cervical lymph nodes
- Pemberton’s sign
- Retrosternal dullness
- HEAD
- Eyes: painful movement, exophthalmos, lid lag, lid retraction
- Thinning hair
- CHEST
- Acanthosis Nigricans
- Auscultate heart ?flow murmur
- LEGS
- Pretibial myxoedema
- Reflexes
- Proximal myopathy
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