A comprehensive clinical examination is the basis for selecting further diagnostic steps:
- General physical examination – including blood pressure, pulse, body temperature, body weight, body height; furthermore:
- Inspection (viewing).
- Skin, mucous membranes
- Oral cavity [due tosymptom: severe salivation (salivation), persistent under certain circumstances].
- Larynx (larynx)
- Pharynx (throat)
- Abdomen (abdomen)
- Note: If the event was not observed but a small part is missed, the child’s ear canals and nostrils should also be examined!
- Auscultation (listening) to the lungs.
- Auscultation of the heart
- Examination of the abdomen (belly)
- Auscultation of the abdomen
- Palpation (palpation) of the abdomen (tenderness?, tapping pain?, coughing pain?, guarding tension?, hernial orifices?) [due tosymptom: peritonitic (strongly tense) abdominal wall]
- Inspection (viewing).
Square brackets [ ] indicate possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.