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Measuring Vital Signs

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1. Pulse lower than 60 beats per minute






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


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






4. How should baby's temperature be taken?






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






6. Weak and may be irregular






7. How does increased body temperature increase the pulse?






8. How does menstrual cycle and pregnancy raise the body's temperature?






9. respirations become faster and deeper - then slower and shallower wit a period of apnea - called the death rattle.






10. Taking axillary temperature






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






12. Top of left foot






13. Fast - deep respirations with abrupt pauses


14. What happens whens vasoconstriction causes peripheral vascular resistance to rise?






15. Abnormal - nonmusical sound heard on ausculation of the lungs during inspiration; also called rales. Sound like hair rubbed between the fingers next to the ears.






16. What will happen in febrile stage if temperature is very high or temperature stays for a long amount of time?






17. Whats the best position to take a rectal temperature?






18. Korotkoff sounds Phase I: Tapping






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






20. 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.






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






22. What patients should not use a glass thermometer orally?






23. Stage 1 hypertension






24. 1st stage of fever is?






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






26. An example of a nursing diagnoses






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






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






29. Decreased levels of oxygen in the blood - often seen in patients wo are under medical sedation - who are recovering from anesthesia or abdominal surgery - or who are in a weak or debiliated condition.






30. Blood pressure for any adult should be no higher than






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






32. Inside ankle






33. 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.






34. 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






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






36. What are the 5 vital signs?






37. Gas exchange in the blood occurs where?






38. How do drugs affect pulse?






39. Bend of knee






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. 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.






42. Breathing is an involuntary automatic function controlled by the respiratory center located where?






43. Are infants blood pressure low or high?






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






45. Slow and shallow breathing - leads to hypoxemia.






46. 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?






47. Newborn






48. What affects does aging do to the respiratory rate?






49. Average pulse rate for an adult






50. Feel