What is the content of the cardiac physical examination

The heart physical examination includes auscultation, percussion, palpation, etc.

1. Auscultation

patients can judge whether there are heart diseases according to the frequency, rhythm and heart sounds of the heart beat during auscultation examination, which is helpful to understand the disease preliminarily.

2. Percussion

patients can understand the heart boundary, judge the size and shape of the heart, etc., which is helpful to the diagnosis of the disease.

3. Palpation

patients can know whether there is tremor in front of the sternum through palpation examination. If there is tremor accompanied by auscultation murmur, it indicates abnormal cardiac function.