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Measuring Vital Signs

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






2. Measurement of oxygen






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






4. Why would patients experience orthostatic hypotenstion?






5. How does age affect pulse?






6. No pulse palpable or heard on ausculation






7. 2nd stage of fever is?






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






9. The temperature of the deep tissues of the body






10. Head injury or any increased intracranial pressure will depress the respiratory center and result in?






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






12. 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.






13. What are the 5 vital signs?






14. Risk for prolonged hypertension






15. What pulse is checked to determine whether there is any blockage of circulation in the artery up to that point - especially in patients who have had cardiac catherization using the femoral artery for the insertion of the catheter or those who had sur






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






17. Normal body temperature ranges?






18. What characteristics should be noted when checking the pulse?






19. Korotkoff sounds Phase I: Tapping






20. High BP






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






22. Sex BP?






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






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






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






26. Average blood pressure should be






27. How does external respiration occur?






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






29. Groin area






30. Bend of knee






31. Taking axillary temperature






32. Those at risk for hypothermia include






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






34. Enviromental temperature BP?






35. Stage 2 hypertension






36. Stage 1 hypertension






37. When should rectal temperatures be used?






38. Weak and may be irregular






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






40. Slow and shallow breathing - leads to hypoxemia.






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






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






43. When is apicial pulse used?






44. Side of wrist






45. How do emotions increase the pulse rate?






46. Side of forehead






47. When the vascular walls lose elasticity - as with arteriosclerosis and aging what happens to BP?






48. Gradual return to a normal temperature






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






50. An example of a nursing diagnoses