Observations

Introduction

Common job for the out of hour team to see a patient with deranged observations. 

Observations (listed here)

Heart rate

• Tachycardia

• Bradycardia

Blood pressure

• Hypertension

• Hypotension

Respiratory rate

• Tachypnoea

• Bradypnoea

Oxygen Saturations

• Hypoxia

Temperature

• Hyperthermia: Pyrexia

• Hypothermia

Listed Elsewhere

Under Presentations

Consciousness -> reduced consciousness

High pain/ symptom burden -> by location of pain/ specific symptom

Observations are signs

Schema

• Symptom -> sign -> diagnosis -> classification

• Dizziness -> hypotension -> sepsis -> staph aureus bacteraemia

Written 2025.