What are Normal Adult Vital Signs?
What are Normal Adult Vital Signs? Wednesday March 25, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) A reader with COPD recently emailed me asking if her blood pressure was within normal limits – it was 88/56 and she was concerned that this was too low. After I emailed her back, I realized that nowhere on the site did I have normal adult vital signs posted for her to compare her blood pressure to. Until now. Adult vital signs can vary, according to age, sex, weight, exercise tolerance and physical conditioning. In-other-words, what is normal for you, may not be normal for me, so if your blood pressure is 88/56 and you are alert and oriented and not showing any symptoms of hypotens