Vital Sings and Symptoms

Most of us misunderstood what are vital signs and symptoms. Most of the times we were confused.

What are the differences between vital signs and symptoms? Here is what I have learned.

When we say vital signs, it is common and measurable. It helps us to asses the health of our patients. While when we say symptoms, it is more difficult to measure. It needs further examinations. Here are the examples of vital signs:

We have the heart rate, the blood pressure, the body temperature and the respiratory rate. Those are some of the examples of vital signs. While pain is the example for the symptoms.

I have also learned that syndrome is a specific grouping of signs and symptoms. Also, diagnosis is the identification of a disease determined by studying the patient's signs and symptoms. There is also etiology which is the cause of the disease and prognosis as the prediction of the outcome of a disease.