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Measuring Vital Signs

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1. Pulse above 100 beats per minute






2. When should rectal temperatures NOT be used?






3. How do emotions increase the pulse rate?






4. By measuring the blood pressure you obtain vital info about what?






5. How does age affect pulse?






6. Heart






7. Side of neck






8. Korotkoff sounds Ausculatatory gap:






9. Side of forehead






10. Bend of elbow






11. No pulse palpable or heard on ausculation






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






13. State of insufficient oxygen






14. Prehypertension






15. Elderly respiration






16. Increased or rapid breathing results from te presence of fever and a number or diseases. breathing rate increased about 4 breaths for each degree increase in temperature.






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






18. Shallow for two or three breaths with a period of variable apnea. occur in patients with increased intracranial pressure.

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19. Excessive sweat production






20. How does increased body temperature increase the pulse?






21. Symptoms of hypoxia






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






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






24. Adolescent






25. Diurnal variation BP?






26. 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






27. Measurement of oxygen






28. The maximum pressure exerted on the artery during left ventricular contraction.






29. Enviromental temperature BP?






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






31. Stage 2 hypertension






32. Side of wrist






33. People most at risk for hypertension






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






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






36. 1st stage of fever is?






37. This affects the character of the pulse.






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






39. Elevated temperature






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






41. Weak and may be irregular






42. Barely palpable






43. Irregular pulse - a period of normal rhythm broken by periods of irregularity or skipped beats.






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






45. Are infants blood pressure low or high?






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






47. Stage 1 hypertension






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






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






50. Fever above 100.2 F