A comprehensive clinical examination is the basis for selecting further diagnostic steps:
- General physical examination – including blood pressure, pulse, body weight, height; furthermore:
- Inspection (viewing).
- Skin and mucous membranes
- Gait [apraxia – learned actions/movements cannot be performed despite preserved perceptual and motor skills].
- Auscultation (listening) of the heart.
- Auscultation of the lungs
- Inspection (viewing).
- Neurological examination – including examination of reflexes, sensitivity, motor function, coordination [due topossible causes/differential diagnoses:
- Apoplexy (stroke)
- Dementia
- Early childhood brain damage
- Infections of the brain, unspecified
- Intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding within the skull; parenchymal, subarachnoid, sub- and epidural, and supra- and infratentorial hemorrhage)/intracerebral hemorrhage (ICB; cerebral hemorrhage), unspecified
- Child developmental disorder, unspecified]
- Health Check
Square brackets [ ] indicate possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.
