Vital Signs

Bradypnea refers to

• Slow respiratory rate, below 10 respirations per minute

• Absence of respirations

• Fast heart beat, over 100 beats per minute

• Difficulty breathing with high pitched whistling

The most accurate way to get a temperature

• Axillary

• Oral

• Tympanic

• Rectal

Artery used when taking a manual blood pressure

• Radial

• Carotid

• Femoral

• Brachial

Pulse taken by auscultation at the apex of the heart

• radial pulse

• cardiac pulse

• apical pulse

• brachial pulse

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

an elevated body temperature usually over 101F (select all that apply)

• fever

• hypothermia

• hypertension

• pyrexia

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Vital signs are important because they...

• Are a requirement doctors must make for every patient

• Signify if your brain is functioning properly

• Are clues for diagnosing illnesses and diseases

• All choices

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

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

Jan comes in and is experiencing several symptoms. The nurse begins to diagnose the problem and take vital signs. All of the following are vital signs except...

• Temperature

• Blood Pressure

• Headache

• Pulse

A device used to measure the pressure against the arteries of the body. This is also used to take blood pressure in a normal hospital setting.

• apparatus

• gauge

• sphygmomanometer

• millimeter

Which artery normally do we take blood pressure? This is also the pulse site where you would use your fingers to measure doing so.

• femoral

• brachial

• coronal

• radial