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Measuring Vital Signs

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






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






3. Macine that measures oxygen in the blood by determining the percentage of hemoglobin that is bound with oxygen.






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






5. How do emotions increase the pulse rate?






6. Why would patients experience orthostatic hypotenstion?






7. Taking axillary temperature






8. 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.






9. Gradual return to a normal temperature






10. Side of forehead






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






12. 1st stage of fever is?






13. Bend of knee






14. Feel






15. When should rectal temperatures NOT be used?






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






17. Risk for prolonged hypertension






18. How is pulse best found?






19. How is shock caused?






20. How does external respiration occur?






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






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






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






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






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






26. How does increased body temperature increase the pulse?






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






28. Korotkoff sounds Ausculatatory gap:






29. Top of left foot






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. Lobes in the lungs?






35. Diurnal variation BP?






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






37. Fast - deep respirations with abrupt pauses

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38. How does size affect pulse?






39. When is apicial pulse used?






40. The average temperature in the older adult






41. The temperature of the deep tissues of the body






42. Absence of breathing






43. Elevated temperature






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






45. 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






46. 3rd stage of fever?






47. Bend of elbow






48. When the heart contracts How many mLs of blood is propelled into the aorta?






49. Signs and symptoms of shock






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