Vital signs definition

Vital signs means an individual's heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and body temperature.
Vital signs means blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate. (Authorized by
Vital signs means clinical measurements, specifically pulse rate, temperature, respiration rate, and blood pressure that in- dicate the state of a client or patient's essential body functions.

Examples of Vital signs in a sentence

  • Vital signs should include temperature, pulse, respiratory rate, weight and blood pressure.

  • Vital signs: overdoses of prescription opioid pain relievers—United States, 1999–2008.

  • Vital signs: overdoses of prescription opioid pain relievers---United States, 1999--2008.

  • Vital signs may also be performed at other times if judged to be clinically appropriate or if the ongoing review of the data suggests a more detailed assessment of vital signs is required.

  • Vital signs: variation among states in prescribing of opioid pain relievers and benzodiazepines—United States, 2012.

  • Vital signs: overdoses of prescription opioid pain relievers—United States, 1999-2008.

  • Vital signs must be taken including pulse, blood pressure and respiration and documented within the medical or clinical record.

  • Vital signs were usually within normal limits following overdoses.In postmarketing reports of overdose with olanzapine alone, symptoms have been reported in the majority of cases.

  • Vital signs: prevalence, treatment, and control of hypertension—United States, 1999–2002 and 2005–2008.

  • Vital signs: overdoses of prescription opioid pain relievers— United States, 1999–2008.


More Definitions of Vital signs

Vital signs means blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate. (Authorized by K.S.A. 2008 Supp. 65-1444 and K.S.A. 74-1406; implementing K.S.A. 2008 Supp. 65-1444; effective Nov. 19, 2010.)
Vital signs means clinical measurements, specifi- cally pulse rate, temperature, respiration rate, and blood pres- sure that indicate the state of a client or patient's essential body functions.
Vital signs means the rates or values indicating an individual's blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and respiration.
Vital signs means “electrical impulses representing essential body functions, namely respiration rate, pulse, temperature, blood pressure, and electrical activity in the heart and brain.”

Related to Vital signs

  • Digital Signal Level means one of several transmission rates in the time division multiplex hierarchy.

  • Digital Signal Level 1 (DS-1 means the 1.544 Mbps first level signal in the time division multiplex hierarchy.

  • Digital Signal Level 3 (DS-3 means the 44.736 Mbps third level signal in the time division multiplex hierarchy.

  • Digital Signal Level 0 (DS-0 means the lowest-level signal in the time division multiplex digital hierarchy, and represents a voice-grade channel operating at either the 56 Kbps or 64 Kbps transmission bit rates. There are twenty-four (24) DS-0 channels in a DS-1.