How to measure the pressure correctly
Educational Program Health / / December 19, 2019
Measure blood pressure is easy, especially with the help of modern blood pressure monitors. But if you do everything somehow, the results will be some. Layfhaker explains how to not screw up a simple procedure.
Which device use
For independent measurement is better to buy an automatic blood pressure monitor (pressure measuring device), because messing with a stethoscope alone is inconvenient, the results will be incorrect.
Some of the automatic blood pressure monitors also show is not quite correct results.
Please note that incorrectly selected size cuff can affect the measurement results. So before you buy, measure the circumference of the part of the hand that will encircle the tonometer.
To avoid confusion in the instrument readings, buy tonometer in drugstores or specialty stores, and do not try too hard to save. Be sure to read the instructions before using it (even after reading this article), and time to change the batteries.
How to measure the pressure
Do not hurry. Sit for five minutes in a calm atmosphere, do not rush to the tonometer immediately after exercise. Half an hour before the measurement does not smoke or drink coffee.
Sit on a chair, your back is flat. Do not cross your legs. They have to stand on the floor so that your knees do not rise high.
Roll up your sleeves, and better - remove clothing with long sleeves to put the cuff on the arm without any problems.
Put your hand on which measurements are made on a flat surface so that the cuff tonometer is approximately at the heart level. Sometimes it is necessary to put a pillow under the arm.
Properly attach the cuff. Its lower edge should be 2-2.5 cm above the elbow.
Secure the cuff so that by it you could stick a finger 1-2. The wires should go to the inside of the elbow to the sensors tonometer fixed pulse.
Make sure that all the tubes lie flat, do not interfere and does not form a loop. It is not difficult, you just need to sit like this:
Run the program to a tonometer filled the cuff, or inflate it yourself (it depends on which model you purchased). Wait for the appliance deflate, or open the valve and let the air themselves.
Record the tonometer and after a few minutes, repeat the measurement on the second hand.
How to measure the pressure with stethoscope
A method in which a person listens to the heart sounds, requires some experience and habits. From the first time it is difficult to hear everything, and at the same time to observe the values that shows an arrow tonometer. Himself as the pressure is even more difficult to measure. Therefore, if you decide to use microstethophone, work out as it should.
- A person should sit exactly the same as in the measurement of pressure automatic tonometer cuff is applied to the same place.
- The fossa elbow or a little above, in the place where it is best to be heard pulse, Must be placed and pressed slightly membrane Phonendoscopes.
- Inflate the cuff and simultaneously listen to the pulse of looking at arrow tonometer. At some point, the pulse will disappear - it will not be heard. Then you need to pump up the cuff so that the arrow tonometer up another 20-30 mm Hg. Art.
- Slightly open the valve a little pear with the arrow tonometer slowly crawled down. Slowly - a 2-3 mm Hg. Art. per second.
- Listen carefully when Phonendoscopes reappear sounds of heartbeats. Note the value that is at the moment indicated by the arrow. This is the systolic, or "upper" pressure.
- Then you need to wait until the sounds disappear again. The figure, which indicates an arrow at this point - diastolic "lower" pressure.
The pressure above 140/90 - high below 90/60 - low. To understand that you rate and what is not, measure the pressure every day at the same time and in the same conditions and record the readings. In this case, if you feel that something is wrong, you will be able to determine whether you have blood pressure problems.
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