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PNE 120 Vital SignsEupnea - ✅✅-normal breathing pattern
Dyspnea - ✅✅-difficult or labored breathing
diastolic pressure - ✅✅-occurs when the ventricles are relaxed; the lowest
pressure against the walls of an artery
Diastole -✅✅-Relaxation of the heart
Crackles - ✅✅-fine, crackling sounds made as air moves through wet secretions in
the lungs
Cheyenne-Stokes Respiration - ✅✅ -irregular pattern of breathing characterized by
alternating rapid or shallow respiration followed by slower respiration or apnea
Bradypnea - ✅✅ -an abnormally slow rate of respiration usually of less than 10
breaths per minute
Bradycardia - ✅✅-slow heart rate (less than 60 bpm)
Biot Respirations - ✅✅-alternating periods of apnea with breaths of the same
depth
Average Pulse - ✅✅-60-100 bpm
Apical Pulse - ✅✅-pulse taken with a stethoscope and near the apex of the heart
Auscultatory Gap - ✅✅-Disappearance of sound when obtaining a blood pressure;
typically occurs between the first and second Korotkoff sounds.
Apnea - ✅✅-absence of breathing
Febrile - ✅✅-feverish
Hypertension - ✅✅-abnormally high blood pressure
Hyperthermia - ✅✅-Abnormally high body temperature
Hypotension - ✅✅-abnormally low blood pressure
Hypothermia - ✅✅-abnormally low body temperature
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