ATI Vital Signs Latest 2022 Rated A+

antipyretic a substance or procedure that reduces fever apnea temporary or transient cessation of breathing auscultatory gap temporary disappearance of sounds usually heard over the brachial artery, occurring when the cuff pressure is high and is gradually reduced, with the sounds again heard at a lower level of pressure (usually occurring in patients who have hypertension) axillary pertaining to the axilla, the cavity beneath the junction of a forelimb and the body; also called the armpit or the underarm brachial pulse beating or throbbing felt over the brachial artery, usually palpated in the antecubital space bradycardia an abnormally slow pulse rate, usually fewer than 60 beats per minutes in an adult bradypnea an abnormally slow respiratory rate, usually fewer than 12 breaths per minutes in an adult cardiac output the amount of blood pumped into the arteries by the heart during one minute; the product of the heart rate and the stroke volume Celsius relating to the international thermometric scale on which 0° is the freezing point and 100° is the boiling point; centigrade centigrade relating to the international thermometric scale on which 0° is the freezing point and 100° is the boiling point; Celsiuscore temperature the amount of heat in the deep tissues and structures of the body, such as the liver diastolic pressure the force exerted when the heart is at rest in between each beat; the lowest pressure exerted against the arterial walls at all times dyspnea the sensation of difficult or labored breathing eupnea normal respiration febrile feverish; pertaining to a fever fever an elevated body temperature Korotkoff sounds a series of five sounds (four sounds followed by an absence of sound) heard during the auscultatory determination of blood pressure and produced by sudden distention of the artery because of the proximally placed pneumatic cuff orthopnea ability to breathe without difficulty only when in an upright position (sitting upright or standing) orthostatic hypotension a sudden drop in blood pressure resulting from a change in position, usually when standing up from a sitting or reclining position and often causing dizziness oximetry determination of the oxygen saturation of arterial blood using a photoelectric device called an oximeter