Difference between revisions of "Vital Signs"
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| + | '''Vital signs''' include temperature, heart rate, [[Essential Hypertension|blood pressure]], respiratory rate<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2016/07/respiratory-rate/ Nurse Suspended for Consistently Charting Respiratory Rate of 16 (Gomerblog)]</ref><ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2017/01/pain-level-gcs-3-and-respiratory-rate-0/ Pain Level 0/10 Correlates with GCS 3 and Respiratory Rate 0 (Gomerblog)]</ref><ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2017/02/sleeping-beauty-narcan/ Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up After Single Dose of Narcan (Gomerblog)]</ref>, and the [[Patient Satisfaction Survey|Press Ganey score]].<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2015/09/monitors-and-electronic-medical-records/ Brand New Vital Sign Added to Monitors and Electronic Medical Records (Gomerblog)]</ref> Pain is not a f**king vital sign.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2014/06/pain-detector/ Pain Detector Gives Actual Pain Score (Gomerblog)]</ref><ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2014/11/pain-scales/ 20 Out of 10 Medical Providers Annoyed by Patients’ Misuse of Pain Scales (Gomerblog)]</ref> Oxygen saturation isn't a vital sign, though it probably should be.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2014/12/anesthesiologists-tone/ Rectal Tone of Anesthesiologists Varies with Patients’ Oxygen Saturation (Gomerblog)]</ref> | ||
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| + | - [[Blood Pressures (Album)|Blood Pressure]] | ||
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| + | - [[Hypertension]] | ||
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| + | - [[Respiratory Rate]] | ||
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| + | - [[Shock]] | ||
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| + | - [[The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:57, 13 July 2017
Vital signs include temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate[1][2][3], and the Press Ganey score.[4] Pain is not a f**king vital sign.[5][6] Oxygen saturation isn't a vital sign, though it probably should be.[7]
Other Reading
- Shock
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock
References
- ↑ Nurse Suspended for Consistently Charting Respiratory Rate of 16 (Gomerblog)
- ↑ Pain Level 0/10 Correlates with GCS 3 and Respiratory Rate 0 (Gomerblog)
- ↑ Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up After Single Dose of Narcan (Gomerblog)
- ↑ Brand New Vital Sign Added to Monitors and Electronic Medical Records (Gomerblog)
- ↑ Pain Detector Gives Actual Pain Score (Gomerblog)
- ↑ 20 Out of 10 Medical Providers Annoyed by Patients’ Misuse of Pain Scales (Gomerblog)
- ↑ Rectal Tone of Anesthesiologists Varies with Patients’ Oxygen Saturation (Gomerblog)
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