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Measuring Vital Signs

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1. How does emotional stress raise the body's temperature?






2. Continuous dry - rattling sounds heard on ausculation of the lungs caused by partial obstruction.






3. Disappearance of sound. (marks diastolic pressure in adults)






4. What should you do if you cannot determine BP by ausculation?






5. How does age affect pulse?






6. A sudden change or muffling of the sound. (indicates diastolic pressure in children and some adults)






7. Abrupt decline in fever






8. How do you measure the apical pulse?






9. Korotkoff sounds Phase I: Tapping






10. How cardiac contractions are normally initiated by the electrical impules emerging from what?






11. Carbon dioxide is carried as bicarbonate ion in the blood until it reaches where?






12. How does size affect pulse?






13. Snoring sound produced when patients are unable to cough up secretions from the trachea or bronchi






14. The average temperature in the older adult






15. What affects does aging do to the blood pressure?






16. How does increased body temperature increase the pulse?






17. Excessive sweat production






18. Both strong and weak beats occur within 1 minute






19. The difference between the systolic pressure and the diastolic pressure






20. Sex BP?






21. High BP






22. Subnormal body temperature the regulating center in the hypothalamus is greatly impaired when the temperature of the body falls below 94 degrees - at that point? sleepiness and coma are apt to develop.






23. The pulse rate multiplied by the stroke volume. This is the amount of blood pumped by the left ventricle in 1 minute. Averaging at about 5mL per minute.






24. Air movemtn causes heat to be transferred from the skin to the air molecules.






25. State of insufficient oxygen






26. What happens when vasodilation occurs?






27. How does disease increase the body's temperature?






28. Difference between the apical and radial pulse - this requires two people to count the radial and apicial pulses at the same time to determine whether there is a what?






29. What are the 5 vital signs?






30. How does physical exercise raise the body's temperature?






31. Full and bounding (even beats wit strong force)






32. How do drugs affect pulse?






33. Drop in blood pressure when arising to a standing position.






34. Heart






35. How does the time of day (circadian rhythm) affect the body's temperature?


36. Korotkoff sounds Ausculatatory gap:






37. Pulse lower than 60 beats per minute






38. Axillary temperature are






39. Crowing sound on inspiration caused by obstruction of the upper air passages - as occurs in croup or laryngitis






40. Bend of elbow






41. Diurnal variation BP?






42. When warm skin touches a cool object - heat is lost to the object.






43. The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the lungs and tissues and is initiated by the act of breathing.






44. Obtaining the correct size for a cuff for BP?






45. The volume of blood pushed into the aorta per heartbeat.






46. Gradual return to a normal temperature






47. If the cardiac output falls what will happen to the BP?






48. How should respirations be counted?






49. Shock - hemorrhage - low cardiac output - inadequate volume of blood?






50. How is pulse best found?