NSG 261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Vascular Resistance, Bradypnea, Human Body Temperature
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General state of health: body structure. Body build and contour: signs of distress. Temperature: heat of the body measured in degrees. Ranges: normal range: 97-100 f, pyrexia, hyperthermia, or fever: body temp above usual range, hyperpyrexia: very high fever: 105. 8f, febrile: fever present, afebrile: no fever present, hypothermia: below normal range. Factors that affect body temp: age, diurnal, exercise, hormones (menstrual, stress, environment. Ways to take a temp: orally, temporally, axillary, rectally, tympanic membrane. Blood pressure: hearts pumping action, peripheral vascular resistance, blood volume, and viscosity. Pressures: systolic: contraction of ventricles, pressure at height of blood wave, diastolic: ventricles at rest, lower pressure present in arteries, pulse pressure: difference between diastolic and systolic pressure. Ranges: normal: less than 120 and less than 80, pre hypertension: 120-139 and 80-89, hypertension: more than 140 and more than 90, hypotension: less than 100 systolic. Factors affecting blood pressure: age, excerise, stress, severe pain, race, obesity, sex, medications, diurnal, disease, orthostatic hypotension.
