Vital Signs

All of the following are vital signs except...

• Temperature

• Blood Pressure

• Headache

• Pulse

Systolic blood pressure is....

• lowest pressure during contraction

• lowest number

• highest pressure during contraction

How do you check respirations in a patient that is conscious?

• watch the chest

• Listen for their breathing

• Look, listen and feel

Pressure exerted on the walls of the blood vessels is termed

• Hypertension

• Vesicular pressure

• Blood Pressure

• Heart pressure

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Blood pressure is recorded as

• Hydrostatic /diastolic

• Diastolic/ hydrostatic

• Systolic/diastolic

• Diastolic/systolic

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

For a blood pressure reading, the number on top measures...

• Diastolic Pressure
• Systolic Pressure
• Diastemic Pressure
• Systemic Pressure

The number on the bottom of a BP reading measures...

• Pressure during a heart contraction
• Pressure between heart beats
• Pressure of the blood vessels on the blood
• Thickness of blood

Highest pressure against blood vessels. Represented by the beating of the ventricles.

• diastolic pressure

• systolic pressure

• hypotension

• hyperstension

Where should you take the pulse of another person in class?

• Neck

• wrist

• chest

• Elbow

What is heart rate?

• Oxygen going to the heart

• The number of times your heart beats in a minute

• Blood pumping though the body

• Carbon dioxide leaving the body