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Measuring Vital Signs

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1. This affects the character of the pulse.






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






3. Measurement of oxygen






4. Pulse lower than 60 beats per minute






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






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






7. When should rectal temperatures NOT be used?






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






9. The temperature of the deep tissues of the body






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






11. Bend of knee






12. Elderly respiration






13. Hearing






14. 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.






15. Weak and may be irregular






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






17. A normal - relaxed breathing pattern






18. Absence of breathing






19. Encourage a large fluid intake - lower room temperature - increase air circulation - remove items of clothes - control or reduce the amount of body activity - carry out physicians orders






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






21. Taking axillary temperature






22. How do drugs affect pulse?






23. Why would patients experience orthostatic hypotenstion?






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






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






26. Fast - deep respirations with abrupt pauses

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27. Diurnal variation BP?






28. Gradual return to a normal temperature






29. Barely palpable






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

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31. Slow and shallow breathing - leads to hypoxemia.






32. Sex BP?






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






34. How does age affect pulse?






35. Excessive sweat production






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






37. Those at risk for hypothermia include






38. What are the 5 vital signs?






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






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






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






42. Lobes in the lungs?






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

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44. Adolescent






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






46. Abrupt decline in fever






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






48. Average blood pressure should be






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






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