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Vital signs are the body's four (or six) most basic status numbers — temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, plus pain and SpO₂ at most facilities.
Read the guideThese aren't four different diseases — they're four stops on one road.
Read the guideBoth start the same way — no insulin means sugar can't get into the cells for fuel, so it piles up in the blood while the cells starve.
Read the guideBoth are the adrenal cortex gone wrong on cortisol — Cushing is too much, Addison is too little.
Read the guideDigoxin is the last-of-its-kind cardiac glycoside that squeezes more calcium into the heart muscle cell and slows AV conduction at the same time…
Read the guideHeart failure is a pump that can't keep up — it either can't push enough blood forward to the body or can't keep blood from damming backward into the lungs…
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