Sy'Rai Lee's Vital Signs Crossword
Across
- 2. contains a bell and diaphragm
- 3. rales have crackling and blank sounds
- 5. Regularity of pulse/spacing of beats
- 7. bluish discoloration of the skin caused by decreased oxygen and an increase in CO2 in the bloodstream
- 11. sleep, depressants, heart disease, coma, physical training do what to pulse volume
- 13. behind the knee
- 16. exercise, stimulants, excitement, fever, dehydration, shock, and nerves do what to the volume of the pulse
- 17. constant pressure in walls of arteries when the left ventricle of the heart is at rest or between contractions.
- 18. pressures greater than 140mmhg systolic and 90mmhg
- 20. heartbeat under 60 bpm
- 22. hypertension is defined as blank blood pressure
- 23. measured in strength, force, quality, or intensity of pulse
Down
- 1. a factor that affects vital signs
- 4. abnormal breathing pattern followed by periods of dyspnea
- 6. pressures less than 90 systolic and 60 diastolic
- 8. occurs in the walls of arteries when the left ventricle of the heart is contracting and pushing blood into arteries
- 9. process of taking in o2 and expelling CO2 from the lungs and respiratory tract
- 10. a pulse blank is characterized by the heart not pumping enough blood to make a pulse or it beats too fast to fill with blood
- 12. apical pulse is taken where at the heart?
- 14. what has a temperature reading of 98
- 15. throbbing of the arteries caused by contractions of the heart
- 19. pulse is usually taken over what artery
- 21. has a normal range of 96.6-98.6