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Measuring Vital Signs

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1. How do drugs affect pulse?






2. Increased rate and depth with panting and long grunting exhalation. Often seen with patients with acidosis and renal failure.

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






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






5. Adolescent






6. How is shock caused?






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






8. How is pulse best found?






9. Alternating rise and fall of the temperature.






10. An example of a nursing diagnoses






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. High oxygen






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






18. When should rectal temperatures NOT be used?






19. Strong and regular ( even beats wit moderate force)






20. Sex BP?






21. How does external respiration occur?






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






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






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






25. How should respirations be counted?






26. 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.






27. Average blood pressure should be






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






29. How should baby's temperature be taken?






30. How does increased body temperature increase the pulse?






31. Bend of elbow






32. What happens when vasodilation occurs?






33. Weak and may be irregular






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






35. BP at or lower 90/60.






36. What affects does aging do to the heart rate?

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






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






39. What happens to the blood if overhydration occurs?






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






41. Diurnal variation BP?






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






43. Those at risk for hypothermia include






44. Barely palpable






45. 1st stage of fever is?






46. 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.






47. Gradual return to a normal temperature






48. right arm vs. left arm/ arm vs. leg BP?






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






50. Axillary temperature are







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