Cardiac History Taking

ACP and educator Lucy Harris takes us through Cardiac History taking in this episode once again focusing on:

• cardinal symptoms

• tips on eliciting common symptoms

• red flags to look out for

The Geeky Medic page on Cardiac History taking that Lucy mentioned can be found here

History Taking

In this first episode in our Early Clinical Experience series ACP Lucy Harris introduces history taking including:

• Owning the information

• The format of the history

• The ‘SOCRATES’ mnemonic

• Starting to think about cardinal symptoms