This app is intended to help students learn typically normal basic vital signs.
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There are significant variations in the literature to age-related, normal vital signs, and the issue is clouded with parameters such as waking status, pain status, sex, and individual genetics. There is also a lack of clarity concerning what is normal, what is healthy, what is acceptable, what requires intervention, and what age spans to use.
The values used in this app come from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (2022). They seem to be intended as general guidelines that can be easily remembered:
| Infant* | |
|---|---|
| Heart Rate (beats/minute) | 100-180 |
| Breathing Rate (breaths/minute) | 25-60 |
| Systolic BP (mm Hg) | 50-95 |
| Child (1 - 8 years) | |
| Heart Rate (beats/minute) | 70-150 |
| Breathing Rate (breaths/minute) | 15-30 |
| Systolic BP (mm Hg) | 80-110 |
| Adult | |
| Heart Rate (beats/minute) | 60-100 |
| Breathing Rate (breaths/minute) | 12-20 |
| Systolic BP (mm Hg) | 90-140 |
*Premature infants typically have higher heart rates, higher breathing rates, and lower BP measurements than full term infants. Measuring the blood pressure of a patient under three years old is unlikely to be within an EMR's or EMT's scope of practice.
Blood pressure readings are measured in even increments when taken manually and can be even or odd when taken with a machine. This app assumes readings are taken with a machine.
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