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Measuring Vital Signs

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






2. How does physical exercise raise the body's temperature?






3. Inside ankle






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






5. How is pulse best found?






6. Substances tat cause fever






7. Newborn






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






9. How do emotions increase the pulse rate?






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






11. Measurement of oxygen






12. People most at risk for hypertension






13. Bend of knee






14. No pulse palpable or heard on ausculation






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

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16. The temperature of the deep tissues of the body






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






18. Korotkoff sounds Ausculatatory gap:






19. 2nd stage of fever is?






20. High BP






21. BP at or lower 90/60.






22. Fever above 100.2 F






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






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






25. What happens to the blood if overhydration occurs?






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






27. How does increased body temperature increase the pulse?






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






29. Diurnal variation BP?






30. How do you measure the apical pulse?






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






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

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33. When is apicial pulse used?






34. 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.






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






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






37. How does age affect pulse?






38. 3 yr old






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






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






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






42. Side of neck






43. Louder knocking sound that occurs wit each heartbeat






44. Side of wrist






45. Side of forehead






46. When should rectal temperatures NOT be used?






47. 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






48. This affects the character of the pulse.






49. Symptoms of hypoxia






50. Rectal temperature are