CNA VITAL TEST
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- pulse rate
- number of beats/min; varies with age
- tachycardia
- over 100 beats/min
- bradycardia
- less than 60 beats/min
- pulse rhythm
- pattern of your heart beat
- pulse force
- the pressure exerted (strong/weak, etc.)
- pulse deficit
- subtract radial from apical
- respirations
- breathing in and out
- one respiration
- one full breath in, one full one out
- expiration
- exhaling
- inspiration
- inhaling
- blood pressure
- amount of force exerted against the walls of an artery
- orthostatichypotension
- sudden drop in blood pressure
- hypertension
- above normal BP
- hypotension
- below normal BP
- febrile
- when a client's temperature is above 100.4 or 38.0
- afebrile
- a temperature within normal range
- tachypnea
- fast breathing
- dyspnea
- slow breathing
- apnea
- inability to breathe
- cheyne-stokes respiration
- irregular breathing pattern w/ a period of apnea followed by deep, labored breathing that becomes shallow and then returns to apnea
- shock
- a condition that occurs when too little oxygen and nutrients reach the body's cells, tissues, and organs
- systolic blood pressure
- the pressure exerted on the arteries during the contraction phase of the heartbeat
- diastolic BP
- the pressure exerted on the arteries during the relaxation phase of the heartbeat
- hypothermia
- low body temperature
- hyperthermia
- greatly increased temperature
- arteries
- carry blood away from heart
- capillaries
- one of the minute vessels connecting arterioles and venules
- veins
- a vessel through which blood passes from various organs or parts back to the heart