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

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    Takeaway. Doctors measure vital signs, like blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature, to understand how a body is functioning and to detect and monitor health issues. Vital signs are ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Ambulatory care - Wikipedia

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    Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) are illnesses or health conditions where appropriate ambulatory care prevents or reduces the need for hospital admission. Appropriate care for an ACSC can include one or more planned revisits to settings of ambulatory care for follow-up, such as when a patient is continuously monitored or otherwise ...

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

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    Mean arterial pressure (MAP) is a vital indicator of your heart health and blood flow. Learn how to interpret your MAP readings and what treatments are available for high or low MAP.

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

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    The person’s vital signs are unstable and outside of their normal limits. They may be unconscious. The doctor expects the outcome to be poor, or they can’t predict how the person will fare.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Cardiac monitoring - Wikipedia

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    Information obtained from ECGs can then be used to direct the patient's treatment at a care facility, particularly in catheterization labs. In the emergency department. In the emergency department, cardiac monitoring is a part of the monitoring of vital signs in emergency medicine, and generally includes electrocardiography.