Presence
of tachycardia is the most significant clinical feature of an unwell patient
and is regularly ignored
or missed or misinterpreted .
Measurements
of respiratory rate and heart rate are seriously more important than
measurements of blood pressure.
A
normotensive patient may all too often be unwell and compensating.
A tachycardic patient is hypovolemic until
proved otherwise.
A
patient with tachypnea has a cardiorespiratory cause until proved otherwise.
Do not
attribute presence of tachycardia and tachypnea to anxiety
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