vital signs vocab
Across
- 2. a stethoscope is used to hear ____ inside the body
- 5. the blood pressure measuring 130/80 or higher
- 7. abbreviation for beats per minute
- 8. how far above the elbow is the brachial pulse located
- 10. ______ is when your heart rate is under 60 BPM
- 11. tachypnea is when you heart rates over ____
- 12. what side of the chest is the apical pulse
- 14. the radial pulse is located on the inside of your ____
- 15. systolic is the ____ measurement of blood pressure
Down
- 1. the name for when your respirations alternates between slow, irregular and rapid, shallow breaths.
- 3. the device used to measure blood pressure is called what?
- 4. eupnea mean that you have ____ respirations
- 6. inspiration is when you breathe air ____
- 9. ____ is to touch a patient to fell underneath the skin
- 13. how is orthopnea relieved