Vital Signs & Admissions, Transfers, and Discharges
Across
- 5. The amount of force exerted against the walls of an artery by the blood
- 6. The number of heartbeats or pulses in 1 minute
- 10. The beat of the heart felt at an artery as a wave of blood passes through and artery
- 11. A rapid heart rate; more than 100 beats per minute
- 13. A touch reading and writing system that's uses raised dots for each letter of the alphabet
- 15. Low blood pressure
- 16. With a fever
- 17. Official departure of a person from a health care setting
- 18. Breathing air into and out of the lungs
- 20. Earwax
- 21. An instrument used to listen to the sounds produced by the heart, lungs, and other body organs
Down
- 1. High blood pressure
- 2. The difference between the apical and radial pulse rates
- 3. The amount of heat in the body that is a balance between the amount of heat produced and the amount lost by the body
- 4. A slow heart rate; less than 60 beats per minute
- 7. The absence of sight
- 8. The period of heart muscle relaxation; the heart is at rest
- 9. Moving the person to another health care setting; move the person to a new room in the agency
- 12. Official entry of a person into a health care setting
- 14. The total or partial loss of the ability to use or understand language
- 19. The period of heart muscle contraction; the heart is pumping blood