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1. Chief complaint CC: The reason a patient called for help. Also, the patient's response to questions such as "What's wrong?" or "What happened?" 2. History of present illness HPI: Explains the chief complaint. A chronological description of the development of the patient's present illness from the first sign or symptom or from the previous encounter to the present. 3. Vital Signs: Temperature, pulse, respiration, and Blood pressure are all ___________ ___________. 4. Normal oral temperature: 97.6F - 99.6F 5. intermittent fever: Fever that alternates between elevated and normal or subnormal body temperatures. 6. Remittent fever: fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly but never falls to the normal level. 7. Continuous fever: A fever that remains constant above the baseline, does not fluctuate. 8. 60-100 BPM: Normal pulse rate 9. Respirations: Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account when measuring what? 10. Systole: contraction of the heart 11. Diastole: relaxation of the heart 12. Anthropometric measurements: Measurement of height, (length rather than height is used in infants because they cannot stand.), weight, BMI, head circumference in infants, waist to hip, % of body fat. 13. Inspection: General appearance, state of nutrition, body habits, symmetry, pasture and gait, speech. 14. palpation: to examine by touch 15. Percussion: physical examination method of tapping over the body to elicit vibrations and sounds to estimate the size, border, or fluid content of a cavity such as the chest. 16. Ausculation: the act of listening to sounds arising within organs (as the lungs or heart) as an aid to diagnosis and treatment. 17. OSHA: a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment