Vital Signs Flashcards
Question: How is blood pressure typically recorded, and what are the two values represented?
In millimeters of mercury (mmHg)
What is the main reason nursing care is required?
Assessing and monitoring a patients clinical condition
Should checking a patients vital signs be an automatic procedure?
No it shouldn’t, it has to be scientific ( with records and be done carefully)
How many traditional vital signs are there?
6
What are the vital signs?
Body temperature, pulse, respiration, arterial blood pressure, pain, oxygen saturation
What is the difference between core temperature and surface temperature?
Core temperature is the temperature of your body deep tissues. And it remains constant.
Surface temperature is the temperature of the skin, subcutaneous and fat tissue it may rise or full, dependent on of the temperature of the environment
Why are vital signs checked?
To monitor the body’s function
What are the Two different types of body temperatures?
Core temperature
Surface temperature
What is BMR?
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the energy the body needs to perform essential activities like breathing at rest.
What are the five vital signs of body temperature?
1-BMR
2-MUSCLE ACTIVITY
3-THYROXINE OUTPUT
4-EPINIPHRINE AND NOREPINEPHRINE AND SYMPATHATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULATION
5- FEVER
What are the four ways of heat loss from your body? 😝
RADIATION
CONDUCTION
CONVECTION
EVAPORATION
WHAT ARE THE 3 REGULATIONSOF BODY TEMPERATURE?
1- peripheral and core senses
2- hypothalamic thermostat
3- effector system that regulates heat production and loss
What are peripheral and core sensors?
They are sensory receptors that are located in the skin and they detect cold rather than warm
Where is the thermostat center in the brain?
Hypothalamus
What are the ALTERATIONS IN BODY TEMPERATURE?
Heat exhaustion
Heatstroke
