Essay On Physical Assessment

Physical assessment is the process of evaluating the condition of a patient to get information about the state of the patient’s health, it involves inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation.
The physical assessment of children is completely different from that of an adult. Even with children because of the different state of development they are assessed in different ways. For the purpose of this concept I will be talking more on the assessment of infant which includes the new born. An infant is derived from the Latin word infans, meaning speechless or unable to speak. It means a very young offspring. An infant is known as a newborn or a baby from birth to one month of age.
The physical examination of an infant begins from birth up to one month of age where the mother keeps coming for

A meta-analysis of three facility-based studies examined the effect of resuscitation training on intrapartum-related neonatal deaths (RR= 0.70, 95%CI 0.59-0.84); this estimate was used for the effect of facility-based basic neonatal resuscitation (additional to stimulation). The evidence for preterm mortality effect was low quality and thus expert opinion was sought. In community-based studies, resuscitation training was part of packages with multiple concurrent interventions, and/or studies did not distinguish term intrapartum-related from preterm deaths, hence no meta-analysis was conducted. Our Delphi panel of 18 experts estimated that immediate newborn assessment and stimulation would reduce both intrapartum-related and preterm deaths by 10%, facility-based resuscitation would prevent a further 10% of preterm deaths, and community-based resuscitation would prevent further 20% of intrapartum-related and 5% of preterm