Temperature Check
This is the average normal body temperature listed in our notes.
What is 98.6°F / 37°C?
The normal resting pulse range in our unit is this many beats per minute.
What is 60–100 bpm?
This is the normal respiration-rate range from our notes.
What is 12–20 breaths per minute?
This is the force of circulating blood against the walls of the arteries.
What is blood pressure?
This small device placed on a finger measures oxygen saturation.
What is a pulse oximeter?
This temperature route involves placing the thermometer under the tongue.
What is oral temperature?
This term means the total number of cardiac beats per minute.
What is heart rate?
This term means difficult or labored breathing.
What is dyspnea?
In a blood pressure reading, this is the top number.
What is systolic blood pressure?
According to our unit, the target SpO₂ range is this.
What is 95–100%?
This route measures temperature under the armpit.
What is axillary temperature?
This is the wave you can physically feel over an artery.
What is a pulse?
This term means the absence of breathing.
What is apnea?
This is the resting arterial pressure between heartbeats and appears as the bottom number.
What is diastolic blood pressure?
When checking capillary refill, normal color should return in less than this amount of time.
What is 2 seconds?
This temperature measurement is taken at the eardrum.
What is tympanic temperature?
A student counts 18 pulse beats in 15 seconds. Multiplying by 4 gives this heart rate.
What is 72 bpm?
A patient says, “I can breathe much better sitting up than lying flat.” This term describes the condition.
What is orthopnea?
A blood pressure below this value is identified as hypotension in our notes.
What is 90/60 mmHg?
This measurement uses weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared.
What is BMI?
Your patient says, “You are definitely NOT putting that thermometer in my mouth.” Luckily, this route can use the ear instead.
What is tympanic temperature?
After sprinting down the hallway because you’re late to class, this vital sign would most likely increase.
What is heart rate/pulse rate?
Medical Translator: A patient tells you, “I feel like I’m working really hard just to breathe.” Translate that into the medical term from this unit.
What is dyspnea?
A patient has a BP of 120/80. The difference between the two numbers is this measurement and value.
What is a pulse pressure of 40 mmHg?
Patient Chart Challenge: Your patient has SpO₂ 98%, respirations 16, pulse 74, and capillary refill 1 second. Are the readings normal or out -of-range?
What is that all four findings are within the listed normal/target ranges?