Ch 24: Vital Signs Flashcards
Absence or cessation of breathing
Apnea
An abnormality or irregularity in the heart rhythm.
Arrhythmia
Sickening, decreased elasticity and calcification of arterial walls
Arteriosclerosis
A term used to describe a post that feels full because of increased power of cardiac concentration or as a result of increased blood volume.
Bounding
A slow heartbeat; a post below 60 bpm
bradycardia
Respirations that our regular in rhythm but slower than normal in rate
bradypnea
Alexis secretion in the ear canal a.k.a. earwax
cerumen
Breathing pattern characterized by rhythmic changes in the depths of respiration. The patient breaths deeply for a short time and then breathing is very slightly or stops breathing all together; the pattern occurs over and over every 45 sec to 3 minutes. This breathing pattern is seen in patients with heart failure or brain damage, but also in healthy individuals who hyperventilate, at high altitude’s, and with hip not it drug or narcotic overdose and sleep apnea.
Cheyenne-stokes respirations
A progressive, irreversible long condition that results in diminished lung capacity.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
COPD
A pattern of activity or behavior that follows a day- night cycle.
Diurnal Rhythm
Difficult or painful breathing
dyspnea
Two names for an Elevated blood pressure of unknown cause that develops for no Apparent reason
Essential hypertension
Primary hypertension
Pertaining to an elevated body temperature
Febrile
Internal adaptation and change in response to environmental factors; multiple functions that attempt to keep the bodies functions and balance.
homeostasis
Two names for Inflammation or infection of the external auditory canal
Otitis externa
Swimmers ear
A term that refers to an area outside or away from an organ or structure
Peripheral
A condition in which the radial pulse is less than the apical pulse; it may indicate a peripheral vascular abnormality.
Pulse deficit
The difference between the stall look and diastolic blood pressure’s (30 to 50 MMHG is considered normal)
Pulse pressure
A febrile Condition or fever
Pyrexia
Abnormal or crackling Breath sounds during inspiration
Rales
Abnormal rambling sounds on expiration that indicate airway obstruction by six secretions or spasms
Rhonchi
Elevated blood pressure resulting from another condition, typically kidney disease.
Secondary hypertension
And irregular heartbeat that originates in the sinoatrial node (pacemaker)
Sinus arrhythmia
An instrument that measures the volume of air in hailed and exhaled
spirometer
A term that describes a strenuous respiratory effort marked by a snoring sound
Stertorous
Thank teen; a brief lapse in consciousness.
Syncope
A rapid but regular heart rate; one that exceeds 100 bpm
tachycardia
A condition marked by rapid, shallow respirations.
Tachypnea
A term describing a post that is scarcely perceptible
Threads
A high pitch sound heard on expiration; it indicates obstruction or narrowing of respiratory passages
Wheezing
An age related blood pressure range
Systolic range: 100-119
Diastolic range: 60-79
Adult
An age related respiration range
Rpm: range: 12-20
Average: 16
adolescent - adulthood
An age related pulse range
Bpm range: 60-100
Adolescent to adulthood
An age related temperature norms
Fahrenheit: 96.8
Celsius: 36
Elderly (70+)
What are the four factors that can affect the body temperature?
- Age
- stress and physical activity
- gender
- external factors (smoking, drinking hot fluids, chewing gum…)
A classification of fever
A fever which rises and falls only slightly during a 24 hour period. The temperature consistently remains above the patients average normal temperature range and fluctuates less than 3°.
Continuous fever
A classification of fever
A fever which comes and goes, alternating between elevated and normal levels.
Intermittent fever
A classification of fever
A fever which fluctuates considerably (3+ degrees) and never returns to the normal range
Remittent fever
These basic heart sounds are produced by the functioning of the heart during the cardiac cycle.
These sounds are produced by vibrations of the arterial Wall when the blood surges back into the vessel after it has been compressed by the blood pressure cuff. This can be broken up in2 5 phases:
1)the 1st sounds heard as the cuff deflates; systolic sound
2)sounds can actually disappear during this stage called
auscultatory gap
3)rhythmic tapping
4)tapping becomes fainter and stops; diastolic sound
5) all sounds disappear
Korotkoff sounds
