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Measuring Vital Signs

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1. How do emotions increase the pulse rate?






2. Sex BP?






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






4. Heat is lost from the body by evaporation. resulting in a daily loss of 800mL of water from skin and lungs.






5. What affects does aging do to the heart rate?

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






7. If blood becomes thicker - like when excessive blood cells are manufactured what happens to BP?






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






9. Whisting sound of air forced past a partial obstruction - as found in asthma or emphysema.






10. A pattern of breathing in which there is an increase in the rate and the depth of breaths and carbon dioxide is expelled - causing te blood level of carbon dioxide to fall. this condition is seen after sever exertion - during high levels of anxiety o






11. Diurnal variation BP?






12. Adolescent






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

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14. Alternating rise and fall of the temperature.






15. The rate at which heat is produced when the body is at rest.






16. Taking axillary temperature






17. How does external respiration occur?






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






19. The pressure wave causing te arterial walls in the vascular system each time the heart contracts to force blood into an already full aorta.






20. The temperature falls to normal and then rises again in a repeating pattern.






21. Encourage a large fluid intake - lower room temperature - increase air circulation - remove items of clothes - control or reduce the amount of body activity - carry out physicians orders






22. This affects the character of the pulse.






23. A normal - relaxed breathing pattern






24. High BP






25. Symptoms of hypoxia






26. How do drugs affect pulse?






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






28. Measurement of oxygen






29. Fast - deep respirations with abrupt pauses

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30. When is apicial pulse used?






31. Weak and regular (even beats wit poor force)






32. High oxygen






33. Pulse above 100 beats per minute






34. How should respirations be counted?






35. The temperature is continuously elevated with less than 1 degree of variation within a 24-hour period.






36. Are infants blood pressure low or high?






37. An example of a nursing diagnoses






38. 1st stage of fever is?






39. Difficult and labored breathing - can often be accompanied by flared nostrils - anxious appearance - and statements such as I cant get enough air.






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






41. Gas exchange in the blood occurs where?






42. Low oxygen






43. 2nd stage of fever is?






44. How should baby's temperature be taken?






45. The lower pressure exerted on the artery when the heart is at rest inbetween contractions.






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






47. Lobes in the lungs?






48. Head injury BP?






49. Does the respiration rate increase or decrease during fever?






50. Stage 2 hypertension