Abdomen Examination
The abdomen exam is a medication exam just like any other but only done on the abdomen. The physical examination will present itself in the following stages. There will be the setting and the preparation, inspection of the stomach and the auscultation. When you are talking about the setting and the preparation, the patient in required to be supine and the place of the examination be it a bed or a table should be flat. The head of the patient is required to be resting on a pillow when the hands are to be resting right at the side of the patient.
The stomach of the patient should be very relaxed before you start on any of the examination. If the neck of the patient is not relaxed, there are expected to be complications and this is to bring more problems to the examination. On thing with the examination of the stomach is that it not only involves the examination of the stomach alone. There are other parts of the body that needs to be examined. Details