Vital Signs (Heart Rate) Flashcards
Your patient has a heart rate below 60. What is this a sign of?
Bradycardia
What does it mean whenever you have an abnormally low heart rate?
You have bradycardia.
What does it mean whenever you have an abnormally high heart rate?
You have tachycardia.
Your patient has a heart rate of 71 BPM. Is this normal, abnormally high, or abnormally low?
Normal
Your patient has a heart rate of 39 BPM. Is this normal, abnormally high, or abnormally low?
Abnormally Low
What is the average pulse rate?
60-100 BPM
Your patient has a heart rate of 93 BPM. Is this normal, abnormally high, or abnormally low?
Normal
Your patient has a heart rate of 99 BPM. Is this normal, abnormally high, or abnormally low?
Normal
Your patient has a heart rate of 59 BPM. Is this normal, abnormally high, or abnormally low?
Abnormally low
Your patient has a heart rate of 100 BPM. Is this normal, abnormally high, or abnormally low?
Normal
Your patient has a heart rate of 112 BPM. Is this normal, abnormally high, or abnormally low?
Abnormally High
What is the minimum normal heart rate?
60 BPM
What is the maximum normal BPM?
100 BPM
Your patient has a heart rate of 126 BPM. Is this normal, abnormally high, or abnormally low?
Abnormally high
Your patient has a heart rate of 71 BPM. Is this normal, abnormally high, or abnormally low?
Normal
Your patient has a heart rate of 137 BPM. Is this normal, abnormally high, or abnormally low?
Abnormally high
Your patient has a heart rate of 83 BPM. Is this normal, abnormally high, or abnormally low?
Normal
Your patient has a heart rate of 40 BPM. Is this normal, abnormally high, or abnormally low?
Abnormally low
Your patient’s heart rate is above 100 BPM, what is this a sign of?
Tachycardia
Heart rate and respiratory rate both go by BPM. What does BPM stand for with the heart rate and what does BPM stand for with the respiratory rate?
Heart rate = Beats per minute
Respiratory rate = Breaths per minute