Are you alive?
Normal Range for adult pulse
What is 60-80
A body Temperature less than 95 degrees
What is hyperthermia?
Fast pulse rate
What is tachycardia?
A constant state of fluid balance
What is homeostasis?
The measurement between heat lost and heat produced is...
What is temperature?
Normal Range for adult and infant RR
What is 12-20, what is 30-50
How long should you wait to take a temperature if the patient has had something to eat drink or smoke?
What is 15 minutes?
Excessively high temp greater than 104
What is hyperthermia
Pulse site used when taking BP
What is Brachial Pulse?
Low respiratory rate less than 10 in an adult
What is bradypnea?
Normal range for Systolic BP. Normal range for diastolic BP
What is 100-120
What is 60-80
The pressure of the blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart beats and rests
What is pulse?
Two medical terms for fever
What is pyrexia and febrile?
Name 5 main vital signs
What are Temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, and pain?
Three things that lead to increased body temperature
What is infection, exercise, excitement, exposure to high temperatures?
Blood Pressure that is considered hypertension.
What is 140/90 or higher
Refers to an irregular rhythm
What is an arrhythmia?
Difficult or labored respirations
What is dyspnea?
3 causes of hypertension
What is stress, anxiety, obesity, high salt intake, aging, kidney disease, thyroid deficiency, arteriosclerosis
Name the following pulse sites:
neck, wrist, antecubital space, top of foot
What is carotid, radial, brachial, dorsalis pedis?
Define Systolic BP
Define Diastolic BP
What is the pressure of blood in the walls of the arteries when the heart is contracting and pushing blood into the arteries
What is the pressure of blood in the walls of the arteries when the heart is at rest
Three things you chart about pulse, three things you chart about respirations
What is rate, rhythm, and volume...pulse
What is rate, rhythm, and character...respirations
Periods of dyspnea followed by periods of apnea
What is Cheyne-Stokes?
Sudden drop in BP when a person moves quickly from sitting to standing
What is orthostatic hypotension?
If hypertension is not treated, it can lead to what 3 things?
What is stroke, Kidney, and heart disease?