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Measuring Vital Signs

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1. Average pulse rate for an adult






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






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






4. Healthly adult






5. How is pulse best found?






6. What happens when vasodilation occurs?






7. Head injury BP?






8. 3rd stage of fever?






9. How should respirations be counted?






10. Stage 1 hypertension






11. How do emotions increase the pulse rate?






12. Taking a rectal temperature






13. How do you measure the apical pulse?






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






15. Newborn






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






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






18. A normal - relaxed breathing pattern






19. Hearing






20. Elderly respiration






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






22. Side of neck






23. What are the 5 vital signs?






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






25. Feel






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






27. Bend of knee






28. Measurement of oxygen






29. Why would patients experience orthostatic hypotenstion?






30. High oxygen






31. Shallow for two or three breaths with a period of variable apnea. occur in patients with increased intracranial pressure.

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






33. Heart






34. 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.






35. An example of a nursing diagnoses






36. Prehypertension






37. When should rectal temperatures be used?






38. When should rectal temperatures NOT be used?






39. Axillary temperature are






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






41. 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?






42. Korotkoff sounds Ausculatatory gap:






43. The maximum pressure exerted on the artery during left ventricular contraction.






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






45. The average temperature in the older adult






46. How does size affect pulse?






47. How does age affect pulse?






48. Gas exchange in the blood occurs where?






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






50. Normal body temperature ranges?