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Flashcards by Constance Damron, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Constance Damron
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| Question | Answer |
| Vital Signs | A Person's Temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure. (abbreviated as T, P, R, BP) *pain is often included as the 5th vital sign, not covered until CH. 38 |
| Hypothermia | Low Body Temp |
| Hyperthermia | High Body Temp |
| Afebrile | Without Fever |
| Febrile Fever | (Pyrexia) An increase above normal body temp Extreme High about 104 F |
| Peripheral Pulse | Throbbing sensation that can be felt over a peripheral artery, such as the carotid or radial artery |
| Bradycardia | Pulse rate <60 b/min |
| Dysrhythmia | Irregular pattern of heart beats |
| Pulse Deficit | when a peripheral rate is lower than an apical heart rate. |
| Resiprations | Measured in vitals called ventilation. count of breaths per minute |
| Eupena | normal, unlabored breathing |
| Tachypnea | increased resp rate |
| Bradypnea | decreased resp rate |
| Apnea | refers to a period of no breathing |
| hyperventilation | increase in rate and depth of breathing |
| Dyspnea | difficult of labored breathing |
| orthopnea | when dyspnea people can breath easier in an upright position |
| Blood Pressure | force of moving blood against the arterial walls. |
| Systolic Pressure | Highest pressure, created with ventricular contraction, or systole. |
| diastolic pressure | lowest pressure on arterial walls. created during diastole or relaxation of the ventricles. |
| pulse pressure | the differences between the systolic and diastolic pressure. SP-DP=PP |
| Orthostatic Hypotension Postural Hypotension | When going from sitting to standing, the BP drops. Systolic BP drops 20 mmhg or Diastolic BP drops 10 mmhg (within 3 minutes) |
| Korotkoff Sounds | the series of sounds heard when listening to the heart. Only heard when using a stethoscope. |
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