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Height (4)
- - use measuring poleon balance scale
- - align headpiecewith top of head
- - shoeless, standingstraight, looking straight ahead
- - arm span (fingertipto fingertip) equals height
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Height Infant
up to age 2; use horizontal measuring board
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Height Child
- measuring pole on a balance scale; or flat ruler taped to wall
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Height Adult
- measuring pole on a balance scale
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Weight- Adult
Types of scales used:
- balance scale (balance to zero)
- chair scale
- bed scale
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Weight Infant
- use platform-type balance scale
- check calibration, set weight at zero
- weigh to nearest 10 gor(1/2 oz)
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Weight Child
- 2-3y/o
- use upright scale
- medications given based on kg.
- (1kg= 2.2 lbs.)
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Vital Signs
- Temperature,
- Pulse,
- Blood Pressure
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Temperature: Methods
- oral
- tympanic membrane
- axillary
- rectal
- other
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Pulse
- Palpating the peripheral pulse gives rate & rhythm of heartbeat
- Radial pulse usually palpated with V. S.
- Use pads of 1st 3 fingers, palpate radial pulse at - flexor aspect of wrist laterally along radius bone
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Pulse Regular rhythm
- count 30 seconds x by 2.
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PulseIrregular rhythm
- count for full minute
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Pulse First pulse felt is
0 - second pulse is one
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Stroke volume -
every beat, heart pumps approx. 70 ml(adult) blood
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Pulse- Rate
Adult -
- resting 60 - 100 beats per minute
- (average - 74-76)
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Pulse- Rate Well-conditioned athlete
- - 50-100 (bpm)
- (average - 50-60)
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Pulse- Rate Newborn
-70- 190 bpm(average - 120)
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Pulse Rate 1y/o -
80-160 bpm(average 120)
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Pulse bradycardia -
<60 bpm
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Pulse Rhythm
- -even tempo
- -regular or irregular(regularity of the pulsations)
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Pulse Force
- -strength of heart’s stroke volume
- -use scale on p. 182
- 3+ - full, bounding
- 2+ -normal
- 1+ -weak, thready
- 0 -absent
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