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Vital Sign: Oleh: Ns. Lilik Supriati, M.Kep
Vital Sign: Oleh: Ns. Lilik Supriati, M.Kep
OLEH:
Ns. Lilik Supriati, M.Kep
Learning objective
1. Explain physiologic process involved in
hemeostatic regulation of temperature,
pulse, respiration and blood pressure
2. Compare and contrast factor that increase
or decrease temperature, pulse, respiration
and blood pressure
3. Identify sites for assessing temperature,
pulse, respiration and blood pressure
Learning objective
5. Know the normal ranges for body
temperature, pulse, respiration and blood
pressure
6. Provide information to patients abaout taking
temperature, pulse, respiration and blood
pressure
Definition vital sign
• Vital sign is a person’s temperature, pulse,
respiration and blood pressure.
• TPR and BP are called vital signs (VS) or
cardinal symptoms because these
measurements are indicators of functions
necessary to sustain life.
• body temperature, pulse, respiration (TPR),
and blood pressure (BP) are basic client
assessments.
• Taken and documented over time, these
data demonstrate the course of a client’s
condition.
Vital signs
• Measures :
- Body temperature
- Pulse
- Respirations
- Blood pressure
temperature
• Body temperature is the measure of heat
inside a person’s body (core temperature)
• it is the balance between heat produced and
heat lost
• Two kinds of body temperature:
- Core temperature (deep tissues, eg.
Cranium, thorax, abdominal + pelvic cavity)
- Surface temperature (skin, subcutaneous
tissues, fat
Physiology of body temperature
• The hypothalamus is the brain’s heat-
regulating center, controls body temperature
by controlling blood temperature
Hipotalamus receives
message from cold and
warm thermal receptor
Compare that
information with its
temperature set point
Initiates responses to
either produce or
conserve body heat or
to reduce heat loss
Heat production
• Heat is a product of metabolism
• Various mechanism increase body
metabolism including hormone and exercise
Heat loss
• The skin is the primary site of heat loss
• Other through evaporation of sweat,
warming, elimination of urine and feses
• By radiation, convection, evaporation and
conduction
Elevated Body Temperature
• Temperature rises when the body’s heat
production increases or heat loss decreases
- If the temperature is elevated, fever (pyrexia)
is present
• Fever is a sign of some disorder within the
body : infection
• Oral temperatures in fever can range from
37.5ºC to 39.4ºC (100ºF–103ºF) or greater.
• A very high temperature can be life
threatening.
Lowered Body Temperature
• A temperature significantly below normal is
called hypothermia.
• The lowered body temperature slows
metabolism and thus decreases the body’s
need for oxygen.
• Clinical hypothermia is used to perform
some surgical procedures; accidental
hypothermia is life threatening and requires
immediate treatment.
WHAT PARTS OF THE BODY ARE USED IN
DETERMINING TEMPERATURE?
Factors affecting body temperature
• Age
• Diurnal variation (highest temp 8pm-
midnight, lowest temp 4-6am)
• Exercise
• Hormones
• Stress
• Environment
Variation in body temperatures
by age
Age Average temperature
Newborn Axillary 36.1-37.7 C 97.0-100F
1 year Oral 37.7C 99.7F
3 years Oral 37.2C 99.0F
5 years Oral 37.0C 98.6F
Adult Oral 37.0C 98.6F
Axillary 36.4C 97.6F
Rectal 37.6C 99.6F
Forehead 34.4C 94.0F
Tympanic 37.7C 99.9F
Elderly (over 70yr) Oral 36.0C 96.8F
PULSE
Pulse
• A wave of blood created by contraction of the
left ventricle of the heart.
• The pulse wave represents the stroke
volume output and the compliance of the
arteries
Phisiology of the pulse
• The pulse is regulated by the autonomic
nervous system through the cardiac sinoartrial
node (SA) node.
10 years 70 50-90
Adult 80 60-100
Method and equipment
• Palpation
• Auscultation With a Stethoscope (apical
pulse)
RESPIRATION
DEFINITION RESPIRATION
• Respiration is the process that brings oxygen
into the body and removes carbon dioxide.
Newborn 35 30-80
1 year 30 20-40
2 years 25 20-30
8 years 20 15-25
16 years 18 15-20
Adult 16 12-20
Factor affecting respiration
1. Exercise
2. Respiratory and cardiovascular diseases
3. Alteration in fluid
4. Electrolite and acid-base balances
5. Medication
6. Trauma
7. Infection
8. Pain
9. emotion
Respiratory rate
• Normal respiration is called eupnea
• Increased respiratory rate is called
tachypnea …. Often as respons to the
increased metabolic rate such as fever
• Bradypnea : decreased respiratory rate
Assessing respiration
1. Respiratory rate (breath per minute)
2. Depth
3. Rhythm
-By :
-Inspection (observing and listening)
-By listening with the stetoscope
BLOOD PRESSURE
Blood pressure
• Arterial blood pressure is a measure of the
pressure exerted by the blood as it flows
through the arteries
• Systolic pressure (peak level when ventricle
giving contraction)
• Diastolic pressure (lowest level when
ventricle rest)
• Normal range (adult) 100/60 sampai 140/90.
regulation of the blood pressure
• Blood pressure is determined by two major
factors:
1. cardiac output
2. peripheral resistance.
- Cardiac output is a combination of the heart
rate and the amount of blood pumped out of
the heart with each contraction (stroke
volume). These are measured over 1 minute.
- Peripheral resistance is the resistance of
blood vessels to the flow of blood. Peripheral
resistance affects both blood pressure and the
work required of the heart to pump the Blood
Factors affecting blood pressure
• Age
• Exercise
• Stress
• Race
• Obesity
• Sex
• Medications and body position
• Diurnal variations
• Disease process
Variations in blood pressure
by age
Age Mean blood pressure
(mmHg)
Newborn 73/55
1 year 90/55
6 years 95/57
10 years 102/62
14 years 120/80
Adult 120/80