Vital Signs
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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]
References
- ↑ Nurse Suspended for Consistently Charting Respiratory Rate of 16
- ↑ Pain Level 0/10 Correlates with GCS 3 and Respiratory Rate 0
- ↑ Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up After Single Dose of Narcan
- ↑ Brand New Vital Sign Added to Monitors and Electronic Medical Records
- ↑ Pain Detector Gives Actual Pain Score
- ↑ 20 Out of 10 Medical Providers Annoyed by Patients’ Misuse of Pain Scales
- ↑ Rectal Tone of Anesthesiologists Varies with Patients’ Oxygen Saturation
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