Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Vital Sign Alert System is an alert system designed by nurses at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. [when?] The alert system, which replaced an ineffective early warning scoring (EWS) system, is a unique creation designed specifically to enhance patient monitoring on medical–surgical and step-down nursing units without increasing the nurse's workload.
Orthostatic vital signs are also taken after surgery. [7] A patient is considered to have orthostatic hypotension when the systolic blood pressure falls by more than 20 mm Hg, the diastolic blood pressure falls by more than 10 mm Hg, or the pulse rises by more than 20 beats per minute within 3 minutes of standing [5] [7]
Vital signs are basic measures of life and good health frequently examined in medicine. Vital signs may also refer to: Music. Vital Signs (band), a pop band from ...
In medicine, Carnett's sign is a finding on clinical examination in which abdominal pain remains unchanged or increases when the muscles of the abdominal wall are tensed. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For this part of the abdominal examination , the patient can be asked to lift the head and shoulders from the examination table to tense the abdominal muscles .
A diagnosis of myocardial infarction is created by integrating the history of the presenting illness and physical examination with electrocardiogram findings and cardiac markers (blood tests for heart muscle cell damage).
The psoas sign, also known as Cope's sign (or Cope's psoas test [1]) or Obraztsova's sign, [2] is a medical sign that indicates irritation to the iliopsoas group of hip flexors in the abdomen, and consequently indicates that the inflamed appendix is retrocaecal in orientation (as the iliopsoas muscle is retroperitoneal).
A modern hormone pregnancy test, showing a positive result A series of pregnancy test strips, taken one per day at the beginning of a pregnancy. A pregnancy test is used to determine whether a female is pregnant or not.
Warning sign at the fence of a military area in Turkey, in Turkish, English, French and German. A bilingual sign (or, by extension, a multilingual sign) is the representation on a panel (sign, usually a traffic sign, a safety sign, an informational sign) of texts in more than one language.