Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Some things to note when measuring blood pressure

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The patient should sit in a comfortable position:

Measured blood pressure at a given time, preferably in the morning, right after waking up. Do not smoke, drink coffee, tea and alcoholic beverages within 1 hour before measurement.

Here are some other points to note in order to get accurate measurements of blood pressure:

- Is best measured by the same person and using the same machine for different measurements.

- Start measuring after 5 minutes of rest.

- Blood pressure should be measured in the arm. Tape measure in this area, it is best to remove the arm sleeve would be comfortable.

- Regularly measured at a position, preferably sitting, straighten the elbow, shoulders relaxed.

- Quick Pump air into the tape measure, then stop the pump, and slowly blow air out.

- Record the measurement results: high index (known as appearing "like") is a measure of diastolic blood pressure, low index (the word "like" missing or weak) is a measure of systolic blood pressure.

- Blood pressure measurement in a row 2 times in the second arm, spaced 5 minutes and recording of each measurement.

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