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  2. What Are Vital Signs, and Why Are They Important? - Healthline

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    Vital signs are measurements of the body’s basic functions. The vital signs doctors typically measure and monitor are: body temperature. heart rate (the rate of your heartbeat) respiratory rate ...

  3. How to Read a Vital Signs Monitor - WebMD

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    This usually involves a beeping noise and a flashing color. Many will highlight the problem reading in some way. If one or more vital signs spikes or drops sharply, the alarm may get louder ...

  4. Vital signs - Wikipedia

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    The definition of vital signs may also vary with the setting of the assessment. Emergency medical technicians (EMTs), in particular, are taught to measure the vital signs of respiration, pulse, skin, pupils, and blood pressure as "the 5 vital signs" in a non-hospital setting. [15]

  5. Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP): Understanding Readings and Mmore

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    The bottom line. MAP is an important measurement that accounts for flow, resistance, and pressure within your arteries. It allows doctors to evaluate how well blood flows through your body and ...

  6. What Is Telemetry Monitoring? - WebMD

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    It is similar to other hospital rooms, but it is equipped with the tools to measure heart-related vital signs such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood oxygen levels.

  7. Critical, Stable, or Fair: Defining Patient Conditions - WebMD

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    In the media, hospital terms that describe a patient’s condition -- like critical, fair, serious, stable -- are vague by design. ... The person’s vital signs are unstable and outside of their ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Monitoring (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Monitoring (medicine) Display device of a medical monitor as used in anesthesia. A patient of an intensive care unit in a German hospital in 2015, with a monitoring screen displaying a graphical electrocardiogram, the heart rate and blood pressure all in real time. In medicine, monitoring is the observation of a disease, condition or one or ...