Vital Signs 1
Measures balance between heat body loses and heat body produces.
What is temperature?
Breathing greater than 20 breaths per minute
What is tachypnea
The most common place to check an adults pulse during CPR
What is carotid pulse?
Normal blood pressure is
What is 120/80?
This is often called the silent killer because it usually shows no symptoms until the damage is done
What is hypertension or high blood pressure
Normal respiration a minute for an adult are
What is 12-20?
Fever is considered anything over
What is 101 degrees Fahrenheit?
Method for taking a pulse most common in pediatric patients
What is brachial pulse?
A resting heart rate over 100 is called?
What is tachycardia
This is often called the 5th vital sign
What is pain assessment
A resting heart rate lower than 60 is called
The 4 locations for temperature taking are
What is Oral, Tympanic, Rectal, Axillary?
This is considered the most accurate way to take a patient's temperature.
What is rectal temperature
What is blood pressure measured in?
When measuring this temperature, you must add 1 degree
What is axillary (under the arm)
Respiration is observed when
(Hint: when you are taking this other vital sign)
What is right after the pulse, the patient should not even know your doing it?
The difference between palpitation and auscultation is
What is feeling vs. hearing?
Difficult or labored breathing
What is dyspnea?
When measuring height the rules for the feet are
What is they must be all the way back and heels together?
A normal oxygen saturation level in a healthy adult is
95% or above
Normal pulse rate for average adult
What is 60-100
There are 7 pules sites on your body, name 2
What is radial and brachial?
Skin, nail beds, and lips turn blue
What is cyanosis?
Instrument used to collect blood pressures
What is a sphygmomanometer?
As people get older, there _____ blood pressure tends to go up
(top # of blood pressure)
What is systolic