Equipment
Respiratory vital sign terms
Cardiac vital sign terms
Temperature vital sign terms
Blood pressure vital sign terms
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Used to listen to the lungs and heart

What is a stethescope?

100
Difficulty breathing
What is dyspnea?
100
The difference between the rate of an apical pulse and the rate of a radial pulse.
What is a pulse deficit?
100
A measurement of the body temperature that is taken under the arms.
What is an axillary temperature?
100
A measurement of the force exerted against the arterial walls during contraction and relaxation of the heart.
What is blood pressure?
200

A device used to measures and displays body temperature in easy to read numbers.

What is an electronic thermometer?

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Absence of breathing

What is apnea?

200
A slower than normal heart rate.
What is bradycardia?
200
A body temperature that is measured at the mouth.
What is an oral temperature?
200
Lower than normal blood pressure.
What is hypotension?
300

A device used to measure blood pressure in mm mercury pressure.

What is a sphygmomanometer?

300

Slow breathing

What is bradypnea?

300
An irregular heart rhythm.
What is an arrhythmia?
300
The measurement of the tympanic body temperature that is done with a special thermometer.
What is an aural temperature?
300
The measurement of the arterial wall pressure exerted during cardiac rest.
What is diastolic?
400
A specialized electronic thermometer that measures temperature at the temporal site.
What is temporal scanning thermometer?
400

Causes of tachypnea

What is anxiety or respiratory distress?

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A pulse taken using a stethoscope to measure and near the apex of the heart.
What is an apical pulse?
400
The measurement of the balance between heat lost and heat produced by the body.
What is temperature?
400

Systolic pressure greater than 180 and diastolic greater than 120

What is hypertensive crisis?

500
A specialized electronic themometer that records aural temperature.
What is a tympanic thermometer?
500
Faster than normal respiratory rate.
What is tachypnea?
500

Normal pulse for an adult

What is 60-100?

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Temperature is the highest at this time of day

What is 4-6pm?

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The measurement of pressure exerted on the arterial walls during contraction of the heart.
What is systolic?
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