Temperature
This is the color that identifies a thermometer as rectal.
What is red?
This is the way that a blood pressure is written.
What is a fraction?
This is the most common way of checking a patient's pulse.
What is radial?
This is the term for one inspiration and one expiration.
What is respiration?
This is the correct order for documenting vital signs.
What is temperature, pulse, respirations and blood pressure?
This is the location where an axillary thermometer is placed on a patient.
What is the armpit?
This is the name of the instrument to measure blood pressure.
What is a sphygmomanometer?
This is the normal pulse rate on an adult.
What is 60-100 beats per minute?
This is difficult breathing.
What is dypsnea?
This is shortness of breath when lying down.
What is orthopnea?
This is the most accurate method of temperature taking.
What is rectal?
What is hypertension?
This is the chamber of the heart that pushes oxygenated blood out to the body.
What is the left ventricle?
This is the normal respiratory rate of an adult.
What is 12 to 20 respirations per minute?
This is how pain is measured in patients.
What is the pain measurement scale?
This is the normal range for an oral temperature.
What is 97.6 to 99.6 degrees Fahrenheit?
This is the normal range for blood pressure.
What is 90-119/60-79?
This is the term to describe a pulse rate less than 60 beats per minute.
What is bradycardia?
This is deep, rapid breathing that is associated with diabetic ketoacidosis and kidney failure.
What is Kussmal breathing?
This pain is felt in a body part that is no longer present.
What is phantom limb pain?
This is the how to hold the ear during a tympanic temperature.
What is gently pull the ear up and back?
This is the part of the stethoscope that is placed over the brachial artery to take a blood pressure.
What is the diaphragm?
This is the difference between the apical and radial pulse.
What is the pulse deficit?
This type of breathing alternates between periods of slow, irregular respirations and rapid shallow respirations and apnea.
What is Cheyne-Stokes respirations?
This unit signifies how high the blood pressure would push up a tube of mercury.
What is millimeters of mercury?