PHS: Exam Vital Signs

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 when heart is at rest

• Pressure of the blood vessels on the blood
• Thickness of blood

What are the four main vital signs?

• Temperature, pulse, size of pupils, and respirations

• Temperature, pain, pulse, and blood pressure

• Temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure

• Consciousness, temperature, pulse, and respirations

Which of the following is a definition of pulse?

• Synapses in the patient's brain that keep blood flowing in the body.

• The amount of oxygen being transported to body organs.

• The pressure of blood pushing against an artery as the heart beats.

• The amount of blood being circulated in the body.

What is "blood pressure"

• how stressed your heart is

• how hard your muscles are pushing on the heart

• the force of the blood pushing against the walls of the blood vessels

Respiration means _________________?

• one expiration

• one inspiration

• one inspiration and expiration

• hold breath

A fast pulse is also called...

• tachycardia

• tachypnea

• bradycardia

• bradypnea

Normal respirations are .....

• 12-20 per minute

• 10-25 per minute

• 11-22 per minute

• 5-30 per minute

the area of the body where you take a carotid pulse is...

• the neck

• the groin area

• the wrist

• the inside of your elbow

the area of the body where you take a radial pulse is

• the neck

• the wrist

• the groin

• the inside of the elbow