A comprehensive clinical examination is the basis for selecting further diagnostic steps:
- General physical examination – including blood pressure, pulse, body weight, height; further:
- Inspection (viewing).
- Skin and mucous membranes
- Aisle
- Extremities
- Auscultation (listening) of the heart
- Auscultation of the lungs
- Palpation (palpation) of the abdomen (abdomen) (tenderness?, knocking pain?, coughing pain?, defensive tension?, hernial orifices?, kidney bearing knocking pain?)
- Inspection (viewing).
- Neurological examination [due todifferential diagnoses:
- Akathisia – sitting restlessness; predominantly a side effect of antipsychotics (neuroleptics/nerve depressants).
- Fall asleep myoclonia – twitching of various muscles during half-sleep.
- Polyneuropathy – disease of the peripheral nervous system.
- Sleep apnea syndrome – cessation of breathing during sleep that can cause daytime sleepiness and microsleep]
- Health check
Square brackets [ ] indicate possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.