PBS Activity 2.1.1 - 2.1.2

All of the following are vital signs except...

• Temperature

• Blood Pressure

• hypothermia

• Pulse

What are vital signs?

• measurements of the body basic functions.

• Number of heartbeats per minute.

• Breaths per minute.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Average temperature of a human being is ...

• 100.4

• 96.8

• 98.6

• 97.0

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Systolic blood pressure is....

• lowest pressure during contraction

• lowest number

• highest pressure during contraction

  (the top #)

• the bottom number

High blood pressure is also called

• tachycardia

• hypotension

• bradycardia

• hypertension

A fast heart beat, over 100 bpm is known as

• tachycardia

• bradycardia

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Select all that are true.

Systolic means...

• The first sound we hear when taking a blood pressure

• The sound that the heart makes when it relaxes

• The first number or top number we document when writing the BP

Select all that are true.

Diastolic means...

• the first or changing sound when taking a BP

• the sound the heart makes when it relaxes

• the bottom, or second number we write down when recording a BP

Which of these is a "normal" blood pressure reading?

• 120/110 mmHg

• 120/80 mmHg

• 100/80 mmHg

• 140/80 mmHg

The pressure when the ventricles are contracting is called the __.

• diastolic pressure.

• systolic pressure.