Vital signs
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- Created on: 10-04-15 20:32
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- Vital signs
- Blood Plasma Concentration
- Fasting Level:3.5-7.5 mmol/dm3
- When found in urine: 9.0 mmol/dm3
- Ranges related to breathing
- Breathing Rate: 15-18 breaths per minute
- Tidal Volume: 0.4-0.5 dm3
- Vital Capacity (male): 6.00dm3
- Vital Capacity (female): 4.25dm3
- Peak Flow: 400-600dm3
- Blood pressure Values
- Typical 18 year old adult: 120/80mmHg
- Male, 20 years old: 125/80mmHg
- Female, 20 years old: 123/80mmHg
- Male, 40 years old: 135/85mmHg
- Female, 40 years old: 133/85mmHg
- Ranges for Body Temperature
- Normal Range: 36.5-37.2 degrees Celsius
- Death: below 25 degrees Celsius
- Hypothermia: below 32 degrees Celsius
- Fever: above 37.2 degrees Celsius
- Hypothermia/heat exhaustion/ heat stroke: likely if above 38 degrees Celsius in the absence of infection
- above 43 degrees Celsius: temperature likely to be fatal
- Pulse rate: 60-80 beats per minute
- Blood Plasma Concentration
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