Vital Signs
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- Diastolic Normal
- 60-90 mmHg
- Rhythm
- Regularity of the breathing pattern
- Count pulse for 10 seconds
- Multiply by 6
- Decreases
- Too wide of a cuff _____ the pressure
- Factors contributing to hypertension
- Obsesity, physical inactivity, excessive nicotine, alcohol or salt intake, arteriosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, oral contraceptives, middle age or older, kidney disease, race (greater in African Americans), Diet
- Children
- 80-120 bpm
- Depth
- Amount of air exchanged with each breath
- Most Common Places to access pulse
- Carotid and Radial
- Increases
- Too narrow of a cuff _____ the pressure
- Adults Respiration
- 12-20 bpm
- Infants Respiration
- 40-60 bpm
- Count pulse for 20 seconds
- Multiply by 3
- Adults
- 60-100 bpm
- Apnea
- Not breathing at all or periods of not breathing
- Tachypnea
- Rapid breathing
- Diastolic
- BP at the time of rest for the heart
- Newborns
- 100-130 bpm
- Oral
- 96.8 - 99.5 Degrees
- Rectal
- 97.8 - 100.5 Degrees
- Axillary
- 95.8 - 98.9 Degrees
- Rate
- Number of breaths taken per minute
- Locations to access pulse in LE
- Femoral, popliteal, dorsal pedal, posterior tibial artery
- Count pulse for 15 seconds
- Multiply by 4
- Systolic Normal
- 90-135 mmHg
- Factors that influence VS
- Exercise, disease process, infection, stress, emotional status, environmental temperature, age
- Systolic should gradually
- Increase with exercise, plateau as exercise plateaus, and gradually decrease as exercise decreases
- Character
- Deviations from normal, resting, quiet respiration
- Bradypnea
- Difficulty breathing, labored breathing
- Diastolic should
- Remain the same/virtually unchanged. Increasing more then 10-15 mmHg is a concern
- Locations to access pulse in UE
- Temperal and Brachial
- Factors affecting Respiration
- Age (higher under age 5 and over age 65), physical activity, emotional status, air quality, altitude, disease
- Systolic
- BP at the time of left ventricle contraction
- Generally considered normal
- 120/80
- Factors affecting BP
- Age, physical activity, emotional stress, medicatons, size and condition of arteries, arm position, muscles contraction, blood volume, site of measurement, cuff size
- Count pulse for 30 seconds
- Multiply by 2