Question

"Present Time" patient details are summarized by using what format?

Answer 1

Answer: C- OPQRST

Explanation:

OPQRST is a mnemonic acronym used by medical professionals to accurately detect reasons for a patient's symptoms and history in the event of an acute illness. Each letter stands for an important line of questioning for the patient assessment.

The parts of the mnemonic used for questioning are;

O- Onset of the event: if the onset was sudden, gradual or part of an ongoing chronic problem, what the patient was doing when it started. e.t.c..

P- Provocation or palliation: are there any external factors that makes the problem better or worse, any movement (palpitations).

Q- Quality of the pain: patient description of the type of pain, if it is a sharp, dull, crushing, burning, tearing kind of pain, or some other feeling, along with the pattern, such as intermittent, or constant.

R- Region and radiation: location of the pain, and if it radiates ( moves) to another area or region.

S- Severity: Using the pain score (which is usually on a scale of 0 to 10). Zero is no pain and ten is the worst possible pain. It can be comparative or imaginative.

T- Time (history): questions such as how long the condition has been going on and how it has changed since onset? (If it is better, worse, or a different kind of symptoms), whether it has ever happened before and how it may have changed since onset, and when the pain stopped that is, if it is no longer being felt by the patient.