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Vital Signs + Respiratory Sounds (Chapter # 5)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| High pitched upper airway noise produced with partial upper airway obstraction | Crowing |
| High pitched expiratory lung sounds caused by narrowing of the bronchioles | Wheezing |
| Respiratory pattern represented by continuous deep breaths; the rate may be slow or fast | Central Neurogenic Hyperventilation |
| Kussmaul's respirations | Respiratory pattern with continuous deep breaths |
| Respiratory pattern with irregularly shallow and deep breaths | Ataxic respirations |
| Apneustic Respirations | Respiratory pattern with breaths that start out shallow and increase in depth with periods of apnea between |
| Cheyne-Stokes respirations | Respiratory pattern represented by respirations that start slow and shallow and increase in rate and depth and then decrease in rate and depth with periods of apnea between |
| The noise made during breathing as the tongue partly obstructs the airway | Snoring |
| To listen with a stethoscope | Auscultation |
| A patient complaint, such as pain, that cannot be observed or measured by another person | Symptoms |
| A patient can see, feel, hear, smell, or measure | Sign |
| Trend | Collection of several vital signs |
| What are doctors use to measure blood pressure? | The CUFF and GAUGE |
| Systolic Pressure | The top number of a blood pressure. Reading during the contraction phase of the heart |
| To feel for injuries during patient assessment | Palpation |
| The bottom number of a blood pressure. Reading during the relaxation phase of cardiac contractions | Diastolic pressure |
| When assessing respiration, what should you assess? | Rate, Quality, Pattern |
| When assessing the pulse, what should you check? | Rate, Quality, Rthythm |
| Hypoxia | The body tissues are starved of oxygen. |
| A dangerous complication of diabetes mellitus in which the chanical balance of the body becomes far too acidic (pH 7-0) | Diabetic Ketoacidosis |
| Respiratory Rate of Infant____. Pulse Rate ____. Blood Pressure ____ | Respiratory Rate of Infant 20-30. Pulse Rate 80-140. Blood Pressure 84/56 |
| Respiratory Rate of Adults ____. Pulse Rate ____. Blood Pressure ____ | Respiratory Rate of Adults 12-20. Pulse Rate 60-100. Blood Pressure 100-60 |
| Respiratory Rate of School age ____. Pulse Rate ____. Blood Pressure ____ | Respiratory Rate of School age 18-30. Pulse Rate roughly 70-100. Blood Pressure 104/64 |
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