HTHSCI 1CC6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stethoscope, Symptom, Pulmonary Artery
2 May 2016
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Vs provide data to determine the usual state of health (*baseline data) A change in this baseline data may signal the need for medical or nursing intervention . Vital signs monitor a client"s condition (before intervention, during) Vital signs valuate the response to an intervention (taken after the intervention) *baseline data: these baseline measurements allow for identification of changes in vital signs. The most frequent vital sign measurements obtained by hc professionals are: temperature, blood pressure, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation. ^however, there are many factors that cause vital signs to change and sometimes values outside of the normal range (pain, environmental temperature, illness etc) With knowledge of the physiological variables influencing vital signs and recognition of vital changes in relation to other physical assessments, precise determinations of health can be made. 3 actions used to take vital signs: inspection, palpation and auscultation (*auscultation means listening to sounds from the heart, lungs or other organs typically with a stethoscope)
