Vital signs

For young and old, a trip to the doctors means seeing different machines to take vital signs. Vital signs are something that is measure such as temperature, pulse rate, respirations, and blood pressure. Vital signs are all measured using different tools in a specific way. For some vital signs, different tools are used to measure just that one. Vital signs are taken in a certain order and documented in that order. The order goes, temperature, pulse, respirations, and last blood pressure.…

a physical exam, complete health history and vital signs. Vital signs Vital signs are a vital part of the physical assessment of a patient. They are useful in monitoring and detecting medical problems. They can help to identify acute medical problems and the severity. Vital signs include a reading of temperature, respiration rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, pulse and pain. Various equipment and producers are used when taking vital signs. Temperature There are…

Vital Signs: A Dangerous Pregnancy Ectopic pregnancies are very dangerous to women, and those who do not receive treatment before the time frame of six weeks to ten weeks may suffer fatal consequences. The internal bleeding caused by ruptures within the fallopian tubes can amount to blood loss so severe it’s fatal. Preventive surgery or early treatment can stop such tragedy from occurring, but early detection and recognizing the symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy are instrumental in averting…

Is she ok?” Jane asked the nurse. She was referring to the woman she had attempted to save from drowning before she passed out cold on the beach. “Who?,” the nurse replied but quickly understood who Jane was talking about. “Oh, yes all of her vital signs are stable, she is sleeping now.” Jane was…

Assessment Patient B.C. is A&O x3- person, place, and time. Patient appearance meets chronological age and is dressed appropriate for age, season and place. Clothing is clean but not pressed patient’s hair is clean but is not combed. Patient’s vital signs are within normal limits for her age and she denies any pain. Patient continuously rocks back and forth and often smacks her lips and talks to herself in a soft tone of voice. Patient’s mood seems anxious with constricted affect. No speech or…

1. What clinical findings support a diagnosis of ARDS? There are a number of findings supporting a diagnosis of ARDS. Through physical examination, labs, and diagnostics including the patient's inability to breathe on her own, alteration in perfusion, and end-organ dysfunction (Urden, Stacy, & Lough, 2014, p. 522). There are multiple findings supporting a diagnosing of progressing ARDS to include the patient’s condition has worsened. The patient is sinus tachy with a heart rate of 120 BPM and…

Queen’ perfume advertisement with a semiotic analysis approach. Furthermore, it analyses the conglomeration of connotations, denotations, indexical signs, symbolic signs, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations represented throughout the advert. It additionally explores the approaches of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirce’s and their views on signs within advertising. Moreover, it considers the deeper ideological representations of wealth, power, beauty and authority along with freedom,…

Daniel Chandler emphasis this in his references to Saussure’s “two-part model of the sign” (Chandler, 2002), which provides an explanation onto why the name and location may be causing confusion to the patrons. Saussure two-part model discusses how the listener of a signifier which in this case be the word “café” would psychologically associate it with “other elements associated with it in a linguistic sign” (Chandler, 2002) which is the signified. In terms of the name, The Apricot Tree Café,…

Structuralism will be examined using mathematical examples and applied to interpret The Great Gatsby. Saussure’s theory of literature centers on the “principle of the ‘arbitrary’ (purely conventional) nature of the sign” (846). According to Saussure, language is a “structured system of conventional signs, studied in their internal complexity as if…

Walker uses several structuralist concepts that can help the reader better understand the story. There are three different structuralist terms emphasized while reading the story: sign, code, and symbol. A sign, in a literary sense, is a thing that makes you think of something else without an obvious connection between the sign and object. Codes are a set of ideas, rules, letters, numbers, symbols, etc., that are used to represent another thing. A symbol is something regarded as representing…