Loyola Full Male Exam Part 3

Next part of the exam I'm going to be focusing on the cardiovascular system. So what I'm going to ask you to do is you can lay, you know, lift the head of the table up just about 30 degrees here. You can lay flat for me and pull the ledge out for your feet. That'd be fine. I also need to get one other straight edge here, so let me just grab something from the desk. If you could turn your head to just to the left just a little bit, John.

I'm looking at the neck veins, which are a sign of your hydration or your volume status. I'm looking for a pulsation. I'm going to put one of the rulers here on your chest. I'm going to put the other ruler to where I see the pulsation. And actually, good. The actual pulsation would be make a line under zero, which is normal. So your volume status would be normal. So I'm just going to put this down. If you could just sit up just a moment, I'm going to put the table all the way flat now.

Good. And go ahead and lay flat. Next I want to do is to palpate the pulses in your neck, the crad arteries. Good. And over here. I'm going to also put my finger in what we call the super sternal match that allows me to see if there's any abnormal pulsation from your aorta. And that's normal too. Just want to look at your chest wall here too. That all appears normal. I'm going to put my hand on different parts of your chest.