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Term
Definition
Bradycardia   Less than 60 bpm Why? Long term pain, medications, hypothermia, resting, sleeping, heart block.  
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Hypertensive crisis   Diastolic blood pressure is dramatically elevated. Diastolic (bottom #) BP above 120-130 Needs to be treated quickly to prevent damage to the heart, brain, kidneys, and eyes.  
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Telemetry Lead Placement   White to the Right (right upper chest) Clouds over Grass (Green bottom right) Smoke over Fire (Red below left breast. Black upper) Chocolate close to hear  
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Shock   Something happens, as a result theres is an insufficient amount of blood being pumped to the heart to carry oxygen to the tissues. *BP \/, Pulse /\, Respirations /\ *clammy, cool *pale *may become unresponsive  
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Septicemia   Pathogens are present in the blood stream. *infection throughout the body * can result in death *temps above 101 *usually respond to treatment with IV antibiotics  
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Narrowing Pulse Pressure   Normal pulse pressures are 40-50 Numbers narrowing can indicate a serious problem with the hearts ability to pump blood. *EXTREMELY important to notice and report to charge nurse.  
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Normal Pulse Pressure   Normal 40-50  
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Telemetry   Battery powered transmitter that continuously monitors patients heart rate and rhythm. 3-5 leads ambulatory continuous monitorying  
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Auscultatory Gap   Temporary disappearance of sound occurs between the 1st and 2nd korotkoff sounds *often heard in pts with hypertension (HTN)  
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Korotkoff Sounds   Pulsating sounds when reading blood pressure  
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Orthostatic Hypotension   When BP drops from standing up too fast from standing up too fast.  
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Hypertension   Sustained elevated pressure above 140/90. *based on 2 separate readings on 2 separate days.  
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Normal Adult BP   100-140/ 60-90  
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Normal Child BP   100-110/65  
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Normal Infant BP   78/42  
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Diastolic   relax, Pressure in the artery between beats. *relax and refill  
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Systolic   squeeze, 1st Normal sound heard. Ventricles contracting and forcing blood.  
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Blood Pressure   Arterial Pressure Pressure exerted by circulating volume of blood on arterial walls, veins, and chambers of heart. Millimeters of mercury (mmHg)  
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Left Ventricle   Pushing out of heart to the body.  
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Right Ventricle   Pushing into heart from body.  
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Core Temp   Temp of the deep tissue of the body. *remains relatively consistent.  
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Inspiration   INhaling. Breathing IN oxygen to the lungs.  
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Thready Pulse   Difficult to feel and disappears easily, when only slight pressure is applied.  
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Weak Pulse   Pulse is not felt when light pressure is applied to wrist  
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Bounding Pulse   More volume than usual. Stronger than normal. *easily felt with light palpation *(3+) *feels full and spring like, even under moderate pressure,  
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Dyspnea   Difficult/ painful respirations Difficulty breathing  
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Apnea   Lack of spontaneous respirations or not breathing  
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Hyperventilation   rate of ventilations exceeds normal requirements for exchange of respiratory gases usually amounts to an increase in rate and depth of respirations  
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Hypoventilation   Rate of ventilation entering lungs is insufficient for metabolic needs usually amounts to a decrease in rate and depth of respirations  
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Altered Tissue Perfusion   Blood Supply pale color coldness of extremity  
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Amplitude   Volume of blood pushing against the artery wall with each beat. *How strong is it?  
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Dysrhythmia   Any disturbance or abnormality in a normal rhythmic pattern.  
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Factors that affect pulse rate?   *patients age *gender *emotional state *size *temp *heart condition *amount of physical activity *medications  
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Tachycardia   Faster than 100 BPM *Fever, some medications, acute pain, feaer/anxiety, shock, exercise, hemorrhage  
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What to check for in the pulse?   Rate - Beats per min Rhythm - regular or irregular Strength - weak, thready, or bounding  
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Hypothermia   Low body temp Below 93.2  
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Constant Fever   Remains elevated consistently and fluctuate very little.  
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Intermittent Fever   Rise and fall, spikes and returns to normal.  
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Remitten Fever   Rises and falls but wont go away until patient is well.  
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Auscultate   Listen for sounds within the body to evaluate the condition of heart, lung, pleura, and other organs or detect fetal heart tones.  
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Surface Temperature   Temp of skin  
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Tachypnea   Rapid resp. rate above 20 RPM. *can be caused by exercise  
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Bradypnea   slow repiratory rate less than 12 RPM  
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Equation to find Celcius   C = (F-32) x 5/9  
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Equation to find Fahrenheit   F = (9/5 x C) + 32  
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What causes high temperature inaccuracies?   *smoking *drinking/eating hot stuff *infant or child *taken only in evenings? *exercise *hot environment *stress *INFECTION?  
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What causes low temperature inaccuracies?   *cold food/drink *elderly *taken in AM *environment *chronic disease  
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Pyrexia *Febrile *Hyperthermia   above normal body temp. /\ 105 can damage normal body cells  
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Pulse Pressure   difference between systolic and diastolic  
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Pulse Deficit   difference found between the apical and radial rates *must be checked by two people at the same time.  
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hypothalamus   regulates body temp.  
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Adult Pulse   60-100 *average 80  
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Tympanic Temperature   Taken in the ear drum. No infants under 6 months  
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apical pulse   represents the actual beating of the heart  
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