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Measuring Vital Signs

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1. Elderly respiration






2. 3 yr old






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

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4. Bend of elbow






5. How does external respiration occur?






6. Excessive sweat production






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






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






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






10. No pulse palpable or heard on ausculation






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






12. What are the 5 vital signs?






13. Louder knocking sound that occurs wit each heartbeat






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






15. State of insufficient oxygen






16. Bend of knee






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






18. How do you measure the apical pulse?






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






20. Weak and may be irregular






21. Side of neck






22. 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






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






24. Taking axillary temperature






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






26. How does age affect pulse?






27. While measuring the BP certain sounds may be heard that relate to the effect of the blood pressure cuff on the arterial wall.






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






29. 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.






30. Side of wrist






31. Korotkoff sounds Ausculatatory gap:






32. Stage 2 hypertension






33. Feel






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






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






36. How do drugs affect pulse?






37. Stress & emotions. BP?






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






39. Sex BP?






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






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






42. Stage 1 hypertension






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






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






45. High BP






46. Why would patients experience orthostatic hypotenstion?






47. Heart






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






49. 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






50. Gradual return to a normal temperature