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Vital Signs Flashcards

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1
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What are the four main vital signs?

A

Temperature
Pulse
Respiration
Blood pressure

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What is temperature?

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Measurement of the balance between heat produced and heat lost by the body.

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3
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What are the five different thermometers?

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Glass 
Tympanic
Aural 
Digital 
Temporal
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4
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What are the five main sites to check temperature?

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Oral 
Aural 
Rectal 
Axillary 
Temporal
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5
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What is the average temperature of an oral check?

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98.6

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6
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What is the average temperature of an axial lady check?

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97.6

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What is the average temperature of a rectal check?

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99.6

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What is the average temperature of an aural check?

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98.6

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What is the average temperature of a temporal check?

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99.6

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10
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What determines a fever?

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Abnormally elevated temp of 101 degree or greater

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What is another name for fever?

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Pyrexia

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What is hypothermia?

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Abnormally low temperature of 95 degrees or less.

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13
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What is hypothermia?

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An elevated temperature of 104 degrees of greater.

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14
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When wouldn’t you want to take an oral temperature?

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If the patient is: 
A mouth breather
Unconscious 
Restless 
Uncooperative 
A young child 
Delirious
Has has something to eat or drink or has smoked in the past thirty minutes.
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15
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What are vital signs?

A

Information about the basic body conditions of the patient

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What is pulse?

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Pressure of the blood against the wall of an artery as the heart contracts and relaxes (beats).

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17
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What are the three things recorded when taking a pulse?

A

Rate
Volume
Rhythm

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18
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What is Rate?

A

Number of beats per minute

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19
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What is Rhythm ?

A

The regularity of heart beat

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20
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What is volume?

A

The strength of the heart beat

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21
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What is an apical pulse?

A

Use stethoscope at the apex of the heart

Actual heartbeat heard and counted

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22
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What is a Radial pulse?

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Found on the thumb side of the wrist

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23
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What is a brachial pulse?

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Found on inner aspect of the elbow

Used for taking BP

24
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What is a carotid pulse?

A

Located at the neck

One of the last pulses to disappear

25
Q

What is a temporal pulse?

A

At the hairline

26
Q

What if the femoral pulse?

A

Accessed for heart cath/diagnostic dye tests

27
Q

What is the popliteal pulse?

A

Behind the knees

28
Q

What is a dorsalis pedis pulse?

A

Located at the top of the foot

29
Q

What can make a pulse increase?

A

Exercise
Stress
Medications

30
Q

What can make a pulse decease?

A

Sleep
Disease
Medication

31
Q

What is the normal pulse range for an adult?

A

60-100

32
Q

What is a tachycardia pulse range?

A

> 100

33
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What is a bradycardia pulse range?

A
34
Q

What is respiration?

A

Measurement of rate of breathing

35
Q

What is considered one respiration?

A

One inhalation + one exhalation

36
Q

What is the rate of a respiration?

A

Number of breaths per minute

37
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What is the character of a pulse?

A

Quality/depth of respirations

38
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What is rhythm of pulse?

A

Regularity of respiration

39
Q

What is dyspnea?

A

difficult respirations

40
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What is apnea?

A

No breathing

41
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What is tachyapnea?

A

> 25 resp/min

42
Q

What is bradyapnea?

A
43
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What is Orthopnea?

A

Severe dyspnea

44
Q

What is cyanosis?

A

Bluish discoloration of skin/tissue due to a decrease or lack of oxygen

45
Q

What is Rales?

A

Moist respiration. Air passing through mucus or fluid

46
Q

What is wheezing?

A

High pitched sound of air passing through constricted airways

47
Q

What is cheyne-stokes?

A

Dyspnea/apnea
Often seen in the dying
Called agonal breathing

48
Q

What can increase respiration?

A 
Exercise 
Fever
Medication
Gender 
Illness
49
Q

What can decrease respiration?

A 
Sleep 
Illness
Trauma 
Gender 
Body temp.
50
Q

What is blood pressure?

A

Measurement of the force exerted by the blood against the walls of the arteries when the heart relaxes or contracts

51
Q

What is systolic?

A

Measures the greatest pressure when the heart contracts

52
Q

Diastolic

A

Measures the least pressure when the heart is at rest

53
Q

What is hypertension?

A

Abnormally elevated blood pressure

54
Q

What does auscultate mean?

A

Examine by listening

55
Q

What is a sphygmomanometer?

A

Blood pressure cuff

56
Q

What is hypotension?

A

Abnormally low BP

57
Q

What is the 5th vital sign?

A

Degree of pain

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