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'''Vital signs''' include temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, [http://gomerblog.com/2014/12/anesthesiologists-tone/ oxygen saturation], pain<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2014/06/pain-detector/ Pain Detector Gives Actual Pain Score]</ref><ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2014/11/pain-scales/ 20 Out of 10 Medical Providers Annoyed by Patients’ Misuse of Pain Scales]</ref>, and the 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]</ref>
 
 
'''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>
 
 
 
 
 
'''Other Reading'''
 
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- [[Blood Pressures (Album)|Blood Pressure]]
 
 
 
- [[Hypertension]]
 
 
 
- [[Nonvital Signs]]
 
 
 
- [[Respiratory Rate]]
 
 
 
- [[Shock]]
 
 
 
- [[The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock]]
 
  
  

Revision as of 19:39, 7 September 2016

Vital signs include temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, pain[1][2], and the Press Ganey score.[3]


References


  1. Jump up Pain Detector Gives Actual Pain Score
  2. Jump up 20 Out of 10 Medical Providers Annoyed by Patients’ Misuse of Pain Scales
  3. Jump up Brand New Vital Sign Added to Monitors and Electronic Medical Records


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