Medical Scribe (Scribe101)|317 Questions and Answers(A+ Solution guide)

vital signs - a series of measures that give an overview of a patient's overall health; heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, body temperature, oxygen saturation heart rate - the rate that your heart is pumping blood (beats per minute) (normal: 60-100 bpm) respiratory rate - rate of someone's breathing (breaths per minute) (normal: 12-20 breaths per minute) blood pressure - the pressure at which blood is being pumped throughout your body (normal 90/60-140/90) (systolic over diastolic) body temperature - measure of your body's ability to make and get rid of heat (normal: 98.6- 100.4) oxygen saturation - the saturation of oxygen in your blood (normal: 95-100%) tachycardic - fast heart rate, above 100 bpm bradycardic - slow heart rate, below 60 bpm tachypneic - fast respiratory rate, above 20 breaths per minute bradypnea - slow respiratory rate, below 12 breaths per minute hypertensive - high blood pressure (>140/90) hypotensive - low blood pressure (<90/60)afebrile - no fever febrile - high body temperature, fever (>98.6)