Body Temperature
The amount of heat in the body.
What is body temperature?
What is the normal heart rate
What is around 60-100 bpm
The amount of force exerted against the walls of an artery by the blood.
What is blood pressure (BP)?
The beat of the heart felt at an artery as a wave of blood passes through the artery.
What is pulse?
The normal range for respiration.
What is 12 - 20 respirations per minute?
Body temperature is higher in the morning. True or false?
What is false? It is lower.
Definition of bpm
What is beats per minute
The period of a heart muscle contraction.
What is systole?
The pulse site located on the wrist.
What is radial pulse?
The normal range for blood pressure.
What is 120/80?
Rectal temperatures are not taken if the person has...
What is diarrhea, a rectal disorder or injury, heart disease, or rectal surgery?
When does heart rate usually insincere
What is when you are exercising
The period of a heart muscle relaxation.
What is diastole?
The pulse site located on the neck.
What is carotid?
The condition of having an abnormally low body temperature (below 95F/35C).
What is hypothermia?
The least reliable site for taking body temperature.
What is axillary?
How long does it take for your heart rate to return to normal?
around 1-5 minutes
The diastolic pressure is recorded over the systolic pressure. True or false?
What is false?
The pulse site located on the upper thigh.
What is femoral pulse?
The 4 vital signs.
What is temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure?
The 5 temperature sites for the body.
What is temporal artery (forehead), tympanic membrane (ear), axilla (underarm), rectal, oral (mouth)?
what is used to measure heart rate?
What is heart rate monitors.
A condition in which a systolic pressure is above 140 mm hg and diastolic above 90 mm hg.
What is hypertension?
The condition in which the pulse rate is over 100 beats per minute in an adult.
What is tachycardia?
Oral temperature is not taken if the person has seizures. True or false?
What is true?