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