What is the reason for taking temperatur, blood pressure, pulse, respiration before surgery?

Answer 1

If nothing else it's a baseline to gauge your health before during and after surgery. They need to know if the surgery is causing ill effects like temperature spike, maybe due to infection, or low blood pressure due to a ruptures blood vessel. If they take your resting heart rate, they can know if/when your heart start speeding up, palpitating or beating erratically, etc. They'd probably take respiratory measuremesnts to make sure you hve good airflow, no blockages, hopefully no infection in the lungs, asthma or whatever...

It's good to establish a baseline of "normal" or "healthy" data for an individual so they know when things get "unhealthy" or "abnormal" and can take steps to even you out or correct a problem during surgery.

(Ditto, the sage. *wink*) Must've hit send at the same time. ;)

Answer 2

Average Temp. is a range of 96 to 99 depending on what your normal average is when your not sick. The books will say 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius. Average pulse is 60 -100 beats a min. Average respiration's are from 12-18 breaths a min. depending on your metabolism at that point and how well your lungs can get rid of carbon dioxide. Average blood pressure is 90/60 - 140/90 Hope that helps.

Answer 3

Well, obviously, it's to see if the patient is physically capable of withstanding the strain of surgery.

The biggest problem usually isn't the surgery, itself, but the anaesthetic: there is a very fine line between the level at which the patient must be kept in order to spare him/her the pain and trauma of being cut open, and a level of sedation that could potenitally kill even a healthy person who is not undergoing surgery.

A baseline must be established: what's the normal heart rate, respitation and temperature for this particular patient (people's norms vary)? Without knowing that, the surgeon(s) and anaethesiologist can't determine with much accuracy when the patient is in distress during the procedure.

Answer 4

First to see if everything is "normal" and second, to be prepared for any complications.
For instance if your measured temperature before the operation is 98F and during the operation it shoots up to 99, then 100, etc., this can be a first indication something is wrong. Same when blood pressure, pulse, etc. change.
So basically the measurements before the operation are for the sake of comparison/reference.

Answer 5

This is necessary in order to check if the organism of the person to be operated on functions at good enough standards in order to survive through the surgery.If parameters like the ones you mentioned are not normal,prior measures need to be taken in order to establish the equilibrum of the organism before the surgery.Basically,a surgery being a very stressful intervention for the organism,this organism must be in an optimum state in order to be ready for such an intervention.

Answer 6

Same reason we talk about a pitcher's ERA or a hitter's batting average. We can predict how they're gonna do. Your blood pressure and all that helps the doctors figure out what your chances for survival are (they always have a betting pool going for each patient).

Answer 7

Well if there's no pulse, blood pressure or respiration, then you can't call it surgery. It's called a post-mortem.

Answer 8

well if u have high blood pressure u r at risk of heart or kidney failure. All tests are to monitor the state of your body function before surgery. They also perform the same test after surgery.

Answer 9

They have to take a reading of all your vital signs before surgery to gage how you are doing and if you are well enough to proceed with the surgery.

Answer 10

To make sure you are healthy enough to go through with the surgery