Biologic
Metronome
Metronome
This is the generally accepted upper limit of this category's vital sign.
What is 100bpm?
This is the condition defined by an average elevated blood pressure when not due to specific identifiable cause.
What is essential hypertension?
This is the normal percentage of oxygen in room air.
What is 21% (ie: FiO2 = 0.21)?
This is the muscle tasked with breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
This is an elevated temperature due to a failure to regulate temperatre.
What is hyperthermia?
The name for a dangerous fast regular rhythm from the bottom of the heart.
What is Ventricular Tachycardia?
By causing vasoconstriction, some cough and cold medications cause blood pressure to do this.
What is increase?
This is the other molecule involved in lung gas exchange.
What is carbon dioxide?
These are three medical terms with the suffix -pnea which is Greek for breath.
What are any three of apnea, tachypnea, hypopnea, orthopnea, platypnea, and dyspnea?
This is the organ that regulates body temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
This is what we call the absence of a heart rate- electrically speaking, that is.
What is asystole?
These vital organs help govern blood pressure specifically through salt and fluid balance.
What are the kidneys?
The oxygen carrying capacity of blood depends on oxygen saturation as well as this blood concentration of this molecule.
What is hemoglobin?
These are what "look, listen, and feel" refer to when it comes to examining a patient's breathing.
This is the temperature at which a fever is defined.
What is sustained temperature of more than 37.5deg Celsius or a one-time temp of more than 38.3deg?
This is the nerve that is tasked with slowing down your heart rate- for example while sleeping.
What is the vagus nerve (cranial nerve X)?
It is my position that this is the most common cause of hypotension in the healthy individual.
What is orthostasis?
This the medical condition characterized by often nocturnal drops in oxygen that can be treated by positive pressure.
What is obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)?
Breathing faster or slower influences the amount of this gas in your bloodstream.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the endocrine organ implicated in causing low temperature + low heart rate + overall slower metabolic activity in the body.
What is the thyroid?
This is the name of the group of cells in the heart that act as a biological metronome.
What is the sinus node?
When confronted with a hypovolemic patient, this simple way can treat hypotension.
What is a leg raise?
Of either a liberal or conservative approach to supplemental oxygen, this is the one with less side effects.
What is a conservative approach?
This is the anatomy of why you feel you breathe better opening a window even though the amount of oxygen outside is the same inside a stuffy room.
What is cerebrum and/or the hypothalamus interacting with the respiratory centre in the brainstem (pons and medulla oblongata)?
This is how sepsis can affect all the vital signs.
What is high temp, high HR, low BP, high RR, and in later or more severe cases low O2 (more complicated)?