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  2. Vital signs - Wikipedia

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    An anesthetic machine with integrated systems for monitoring of several vital parameters, including blood pressure and heart rate. Purpose. assess the general physical health of a person. Vital signs (also known as vitals) are a group of the four to six most crucial medical signs that indicate the status of the body's vital (life-sustaining ...

  3. Pediatric early warning signs - Wikipedia

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    When reviewing vital signs in each of the age groups, be alert for significant changes and compare with normal values for each of the signs. For best results, when taking vital signs of infants, respirations are counted first before the infant is disturbed, the pulse next, temperature, and then blood pressure last. [16] Table containing the ...

  4. Early warning score - Wikipedia

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    An early warning score (EWS) is a guide used by medical services to quickly determine the degree of illness of a patient. It is based on the vital signs (respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, temperature, blood pressure, pulse / heart rate, AVPU response). [1] Scores were developed in the late 1990s when studies showed that in-hospital ...

  5. Vital Sign Alert System - Wikipedia

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    Vital Sign Alert System is an alert system designed by nurses at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. [when?] The alert system, which replaced an ineffective early warning scoring (EWS) system, is a unique creation designed specifically to enhance patient monitoring on medical–surgical and step-down nursing units without increasing the nurse's workload.

  6. List of Vital Signs band members - Wikipedia

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    List of Vital Signs band members. This is the line-up of Vital Signs, a Pakistani pop rock band formed in Rawalpindi in 1986 by keyboardist, Rohail Hyatt, and bassist, Shahzad Hasan, who were soon joined by guitarist, Nusrat Hussain and vocalist, Junaid Jamshed. They were widely known as Pakistan's first and most successful pop band and were ...

  7. Vital Signs (school publication) - Wikipedia

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    Vital Signs (school publication) West Visayas State University#Administration. From a merge: This is a redirect from a page that was merged into another page. This redirect was kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the target page.

  8. Blood pressure - Wikipedia

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    Blood pressure is one of the vital signs—together with respiratory rate, heart rate, oxygen saturation, and body temperature—that healthcare professionals use in evaluating a patient's health. Normal resting blood pressure in an adult is approximately 120 millimetres of mercury (16 kPa) systolic over 80 millimetres of mercury (11 kPa ...

  9. Orthostatic vital signs - Wikipedia

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    Orthostatic vital signs are a series of vital signs of a patient taken while the patient is supine, then again while standing. [1] The results are only meaningful if performed in the correct order (starting with supine position). [2][3][4] Used to identify orthostatic hypotension, [5] orthostatic vital signs are commonly taken in triage ...