While in India lot of medical camps are conducted by various hospitals and also service organizations, if the doctors concerned can concentrate on the following tips to detect congenital heart diseases(CHD), it will be a good service for masses. The following points help me to detect CHD among a group of people very easily in a camp. Look if there is unusual tall stature or short stature. Tall stature points to Marfan's syndrome and short stature points to Turner syndrome and the related CHD.
If the ear of the individual is not usual in shape then think of CHD and will be rewarding clinically. If the hands are spread and if you see clinodactyly- the curving little finger with shortness of the little finger not reaching the distal inter phalangeal joint groove, then think of ruling out ASD. Lean individual denoting failure to grow to the age of the individual. These things will help any…
