VERY IMPORTANT TERM REGARDING ABNORMAL VITALS
(a) RESPIRATION
1.TACHYPNEA
It is the increase of respiratory rate over 24 breath per minute
2.BRADYPNEA -
It is the decrease of respiratory rate less than 10 breath per minute
3.APNOEA
it is the total cessation of breathing
4.HYPERPNOEA-
It is increase in the depth of respiration
5.ORTHOPNOEA-
It is the difficulty of breathing in upright position
6.STERTOROUS-
It is a noisy breathing with snoring sound made by the air passage the secretion..
7.STRIDOR -
A harsh, vibrating, shrill sound is produced by during respiration as seen in upper airway obstruction.
8.RAlE - An abnormal ratting or bubbling sound caused by the mucus in the air passages
9.WHEEZE.
The high pitched, musical whistling sound that occurs with the partial obstruction of smaller bronchi
10.SIGH-a very deep inspiration followed by prolong expiration
11.AIR HUNGER -
A form of dyspnea in which there are deep sighing respiration
12.CHEYNE STOK'S RESPIRATION
It is an increase in rate and depth of respiration alternates with period of apnea
13.DYSPNEA - Difficult or laboured breathing
14.CYANOSIS - Blueness or discoloration of skin and mucus membrane caused by lack of oxygen in the tissue
15.ANOXIA -
Absent of oxygen in tissue
16.ASPHYXIA -
It is the state of suffocation
17.KUSSMAUL RESPIRATION
It is characterized by a deep, rapid breathing pattern.
18.BIOT RESPIRATION
an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by groups of regular deep inspirations followed by regular or irregular periods of apnea
(b) PULSE
1.Dicrotic pulse
There is one heart beat and two arterial pulsation giving the sensation of a double beat
2.Water hammer pulse
A full volume of pulse but rapidly collapsing pulse occuring aortic regurgitation or incompetence
3.Bounding pulse
It signifies as increased stroke volume
4.Bigeminal pulse
It is accompanied by an irregular rhythm in which every others beat comes early
5.Paradoxical pulse
The force and strength of this pulse wave varies
(c) TEMPERATURE
1.CRISIS
*True crisis
*false crisis
2.LYSIS
3.Constant fever
4.Remittent fever
5.intermittent /Quotidian fever
6.Inverse fever
7.Hectic or swinging fever
8.Relapsing fever
9.irregular fever
10.Rigor
11. pyrexia
*low
*moderate
*high
*hyper
12.Sub normal temperature
13.Hyperthermia
14.hypothermia
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