Measuring Vital Signs
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Measuring Vital Signs
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25 Questions

1. Weak and regular (even beats wit poor force)

2. Signs and symptoms of shock

3. Side of neck

4. The rate at which heat is produced when the body is at rest.

5. Hearing

6. When should rectal temperatures be used?

7. Abrupt decline in fever

8. 3rd stage of fever?

9. The pulse rate multiplied by the stroke volume. This is the amount of blood pumped by the left ventricle in 1 minute. Averaging at about 5mL per minute.

10. What will happen in febrile stage if temperature is very high or temperature stays for a long amount of time?

11. Axillary temperature are

12. This affects the character of the pulse.

13. Head injury BP?

14. The temperature of the deep tissues of the body

15. How is pulse best found?

16. Excessive sweat production

17. What patients should not use a glass thermometer orally?

18. Breathing is an involuntary automatic function controlled by the respiratory center located where?

19. Heat is lost from the body by evaporation. resulting in a daily loss of 800mL of water from skin and lungs.

20. The lower pressure exerted on the artery when the heart is at rest inbetween contractions.

21. The difference between the systolic pressure and the diastolic pressure

22. Heart

23. Those at risk for hypothermia include

24. Obtaining the correct size for a cuff for BP?

25. What happens when vasodilation occurs?