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Observation: Body System Approach

• Chest and lungs: Pain related to respiration, dyspnea, cyanosis,

wheezing, cough, sputum {character, and quantity}, exposure to

tuberculosis (TB), last chest X-ray

• Heart and blood vessels: Chest pain or distress, precipitating causes,

timing and duration, relieving factors, dyspnea, orthopnea, edema,

hypertension, exercise tolerance