vi·tal signs (VS),
determination of temperature, pulse rate, rate of breathing, and level of blood pressure.
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vital signs
pl.n. Body temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure as measured to assess health or dysfunction.
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Vital Signs
A phrase referring to a UK Department of Health approach to planning and managing some of the UK’s most critical health issues, by creating a framework which allows increased autonomy to better meet national and local priorities.
Vital Signs
• National requirements—those things that a local NHS “must do”—e.g., meet targets such as waiting times for cancer treatment and number of MRSA infections per unit of population;
• National priorities delivered locally—those things a local NHS “needs to do”—e.g., implement initiatives to address childhood obesity rates and avoidable deaths from heart disease and stroke—to be agreed and approved by the local Strategic Health Authority;
• Local actions—those things a local NHS “chooses to do”—e.g., local targets for mental health services, diabetes, and so on; the DH does not involve itself in the performance of local activities.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
vital signs
Vitals Clinical medicine Any objective parameter used to assess basic life functions–eg, bp, pulse, respiratory rate, and temperatureMcGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
vi·tal signs
(vī'tăl sīnz) Objective measurements of temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure as a means of assessing general health and cardiorespiratory function.
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vital signs
Indications that a person is still alive. Vital signs include breathing, sounds of the heart beat, a pulse that can be felt, a reduction in the size of the pupils in response to bright light, movement in response to a painful stimulus and signs of electrical activity in the brain on the electroencephalogram.Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
Vital signs
Basic indicators of body function, usually meaning heartbeats per minute, breaths per minute, blood pressure, body temperature, and weight.
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vi·tal signs
(VS) (vīt-ăl sīnz) Clinical determination of temperature, pulse rate, rate of breathing, and level of blood pressure.
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