Age
The pediatric patient that is 6-12 years old.
What is the school-aged?
The patient weighing over 40kg.
What is the adolescent?
The average minimum height of an adolescent.
What is 48 inches?
A heart rate of 105 beats per minute is considered to be tachycardia for this pediatric patient.
What is an adolescent?
Since newborns have this type of breathing pattern, it is imperative to count their rate for a full sixty seconds when taking vital signs.
What is periodic breathing?
A three-year-old.
What is a preschooler?
This patient is weighed in grams.
What is the newborn?
This patient ranges in height from around 4 to 5 feet tall.
What is the school-aged child?
This type of heart rhythm is common in children, causing the heart rate to increase with inspiration and decrease with expiration.
What is sinus arrhythmia?
The lowest respiratory rate that is considered normal for a toddler.
What is a rate of 24 breaths per minute?
The title for a child during their first year of life.
What is an infant?
Girls have growth spurts earlier than boys during this phase.
What is school-aged?
The average height of 3-6-year-olds.
What is 40 inches?
A heart rate less than ______ beats per minute is considered bradycardia for an infant.
What is 100?
A respiratory rate greater than this would be considered tachypnea for a 5-year-old.
What is a rate of 34 breaths per minute?
A child from birth through the first four weeks of life.
What is a newborn?
The patient that triples their birth weight by their first birthday, weighing in around 10kg.
What is the infant?
The average height of this patient is just under 3 feet.
What is the toddler?
A 4-year-old with a heart rate of 89 beats per minute is considered to be this.
What is normal?
The lowest number of times an infant can breathe per minute and still be considered to have a normal respiratory rate.
What is 30?
The age range and name for the pediatric patient closest to adulthood.
What is 12-18 years old and an adolescent?
This patient quadruples their birth weight by the age of 30 months.
What is a toddler?
The patient is 150% taller at the end of this age range than they were at birth.
What is the infant?
A heart rate of 100 beats per minute is considered normal for all age ranges of patients EXCEPT this one.
What is a newborn?
What are school-aged and adolescents?