Vital Signs/Assessment Review

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Across
  1. 2. test that evaluates bone vs air conduction
  2. 3. continue to listen until the cuff is completed deflated to avoid mistaking these in your blood pressure reading
  3. 7. technique to assess for the presence of air or fluid in underlying structures
  4. 8. point of maximal impulse abbreviation
  5. 10. regulates temperature
  6. 13. the "sound" heard when aortic and pulmonic valves are involved
  7. 15. the loss of blood would cause a ______ in blood pressure
  8. 16. the elderly may run a _____ temperature which makes assessing febrile state more difficult
Down
  1. 1. breathing pattern associated with the terminally ill
  2. 4. jerky movements of the eyes
  3. 5. valve valve that sits behind the hearts two right chambers
  4. 6. when light is place into the eyes the pupils ___________
  5. 9. abbreviation for quadrant that has McBurney's point
  6. 11. pressure difference between systolic and diastolic
  7. 12. pulse the left midclavicular line and fifth intercostal space
  8. 14. intervention for an elder person with orthostatic hypotension