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| Range: Rectal temperature |
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| Range: Axillary temperature |
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| Range:• Tympanic membrane temperature |
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| Range:• Temporal artery temperature |
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| Normal adult pulse range: |
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| Normal adult blood pressure range: |
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| • 90/60 to 140/90 (Most physicians and the American Heart Association consider less than 120/80 to be “normal”) |
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| Normal adult respiratory rate: |
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| high Blood pressure- the systolic pressure is 140 mm Hg or higher or the diastolic pressure is 90 mm Hg or higher 699 |
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| when the systolic pressure is between 120 and 138 mm Hg or the diastolic pressure is between 80 and 89 mm Hg. |
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| low Blood Pressure less than 90(systolic) and/or less than 60(diastolic |
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| a slow heart rate, the heart rate is less than 60 beats per minute. |
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| a rapid heart rate. The heart rate is more than 100 beats per minute. |
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| difficult, labored, or painful breathing heart disease and anxiety are common causes |
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| slow breathing. Respirations are fewer than 12 per minute, drug over dose and nervous system disorders are common causes |
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| rapid breathing . respirations are more than 20 per minute |
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| lack or absence of breathing. It occurs in sudden cardiac arrest and respiratory arrest. |
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| respirations gradually increase in rate and depth and then shallow and slow. Breathing may stop for 10 to 20 seconds. |
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| breathing is slow shallow and sometimes irregular. |
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| breathing is rapid and deeper than normal. |
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| a reduced amount of oxygen in the blood. |
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| the cells do not have enough oxygen. |
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| bluish color to the skin, lips, mucous membranes and nail beds |
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| very deep and rapid respirations. They signal diabetic coma |
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| breathing deeply and comfortably only when sitting common causes are emphysema, asthma, pneumonia,angina. |
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