Vital Signs
- common, measurable indicators that help us to assess the health of patients.
- signs vital to life
- standard values can change according to sex and age
- Examples
- Pulse
- Blood pressure
- body Temperature
- Respiratory rate
Symptoms
- more subjective and more difficult to measure
- Example: pain
- A specific grouping of signs and symptoms is known as syndrome
Diagnosis
- identification of disease determined by the study of the patient's signs, symptoms, history and results
Etiology
Prognosis
- prediction of the outcome of a disease
The study of vital signs and symptoms plays an important aspect in our lives for it teaches how to interact with certain diseases that may cause harm to our body. Also, without knowing them, we would not know how counter act them.
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