Staying Alive
This term means without a temperature
What is Afebrile?
What is the interchange of Oxygen O2 and Carbon Dioxide CO2 called?
What is respiration?
What is the tension of the blood within the blood vessels called?
What is blood pressure?
This thermometer is placed under the armpit.
What is axillary temp?
This artery is used to measure blood pressure and can be palpated in the antecubital space.
What is brachial?
Name the vital sign that measure inspiratory and expiratory effort.
What is Respiration?
What is the piece of equipment needed to assess respiration.
What is watch with second hand?
Loss of blood volume caused by excess bleeding is called?
What is hemorrhage?
What is the best route to take a temperature for a patient on oxygen?
What is not oral, axillary, temporal, rectal or tympanic acceptable.
Using 2-3 fingertips you can palpate this pulse behind the knee.
What is Popliteal?
This vital sign has two components: systolic and diastolic
What is Blood Pressure?
What is a normal respiratory rate ?
What is 12-20 pm?
The pressure exerted by the blood on the arterial wall
while the ventricles are in a relaxed state is called ?
What is diastole?
When taking a temperature by this route, a patient should wait 30 minutes after ingesting hot or cold liquids.
What is oral?
Using 2-3 fingertips, this pulse can be found on the medial aspect of the ankle just below the malleolus.
What is Posterior tibialis?
The amount of heat produced by the body when the body is at rest
What is the BMR or basal metabolic rate?
What is a cessation of respirations known as ?
What is apnea?
What is the piece of equipment with an inflatable bladder that holds air which is used to measure blood pressure called ?
What is sphygmomanometer?
A temperature reading of 99.6 is considered normal for which route?
What is Rectal?
When palpating this artery to the side of the trachea it is important not to palpate both the left and right at the same time.
What is carotid?
This sixth Vital sign is a subjective measurement
What is Pain?
What do we call abnormal lung sounds that may be heard with a stethoscope upon auscultation?
What are adventitious lung sounds?
What do we call a consistent systolic reading greater than 130 and diastolic reading greater than 80?
What is high blood pressure or hypertension?
The nurse should count a full 60 seconds when measuring this and note any irregularities including rate, rhythm and strength
What is radial pulse?
This equipment may be used to assess non palpable pulses.
What is a doppler?