(Height & Weight)
This process involves manipulating two weights on a balance bar until a pointer rests in the middle of a rectangle
What is obtaining the patient’s weight by using a balance beam scale
This part of the brain is the temperature-regulating center and acts like a thermostat, constantly working to keep the body at its ideal temperature
What is the hypothalamus
Which temperature measurement method, taken under the armpit, is considered the least accurate?
What is axillary
Name the four vital indicators, also known as TPR and B/P, that are essential to life.
What are temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure?
Have you had any surgeries?
What is past surgical history
Before an accurate weight can be measured using a balance beam scale, this crucial step must be performed by setting both weights at zero and ensuring the pointer floats in the middle of the rectangle
What is calibrating the scale
The body maintains its temperature through a delicate balance between these two fundamental processes
What are heat production and heat loss
For accurate oral temperature, patients must avoid these two actions for at least 15 minutes prior.
What are smoked or had anything hot or cold by mouth?
This pulse site on the thumb side of the inner wrist is most frequently used for measuring pulse rate.
What is the radial pulse?
Before measuring a patient's height and weight, you should instruct them to remove these specific items for accuracy.
What are shoes, handbags, and items in pockets, such as keys and coin purses
To measure height using a balance beam scale, this specific part is lowered to touch the patient's head, and the measurement is read on the extension bar.
What is the height bar
When the body senses it is too warm, the brain signals these glands to produce moisture that cools the body through evaporation, and causes surface blood vessels to perform this action.
What are sweat glands and to dilate (widen)
This internal temperature method is very accurate and ideal for babies and young children who cannot hold an oral thermometer.
What is rectal?
What medical term describes a consistent pulse rate exceeding 100 beats per minute?
What is tachycardia?
Mother, Father, sibling and grandparents
What is family history.
This numerical correlation between a patient's height and weight is often calculated by a medical assistant and documented in the patient's record
What is Body Mass Index (BMI)
When the body senses coolness, surface blood vessels perform this action, and small papillary muscles around hair follicles contract, causing goosebumps
What is constrict (narrow)
This ear-based temperature method measures infrared heat and is ideal for assessing core body temperature due to its shared blood supply with the hypothalamus.
What is tympanic (ear or aural)
In which artery of the arm, at the antecubital space, is blood pressure typically measured
What is the brachial artery
what is no known drug allergies
According to the sources, patients should be instructed to remove these items before their height and weight are measured on a balance beam scale.
What are shoes, handbags, and items in pockets, such as keys and coin purses
During an infection, microorganisms cause these toxins or by-products of degenerating tissues to be secreted, which raise the set point of the hypothalamic thermostat, leading to a fever response.
What are pyrogens
This highly accurate, convenient, and fast forehead temperature method requires measuring behind the earlobe if the forehead is perspiring.
What is temporal artery (forehead)
What term describes a drop in blood pressure when moving from sitting to standing, often causing dizziness in elderly patients?
What is orthostatic hypotension
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what is elevated blood pressure.