BLOOD PRESSURE

Group 3

BLOOD PRESSURE
Pressure of the blood in the circulatory

system, often measured for diagnosis since it

closely related to the force and rate of the
heartbeat and the diameter and elasticity of
arterial walls.
Amount of blood flow ejected from the left
ventricle of the heart during systolic and the
amount of resistance the blood meets due to
systemic vascular resistance.

INSTRUMENT
Stethoscope- medical device or instrument

used for listening to the sound generated in

the body
-The instrument or device used to measure
blood pressure is called a
sphygmomanometer

TWO TYPES OF
SPHYGMOMANOMETER
1. Mercury manometer
- More accurate and less convenient to
use
-Vertical glass or plastic tube filled with
liquid mercury that is used to measure the
pressure of gases.
2. Aneroid manometer
-device used by medical professionals
to measure blood pressure, which can be
defined as the force exerted on the walls of
the arteries as the heart pumps blood around
the body.

LOCATION
Ankle pressure
Toe Pressure
Segmental Leg Pressure
Arm Pressure

MONITORING
Procedure for measuring blood pressure using
mercury manometer:
Roll up the patients sleeve if necessary. The brachial

artery must be free of clothing.

Place the deflated sphygmomanometer cuff evenly
around the patients upper arm above the elbow;
secure it so that it will not work loose.
Place the bladder or bell of the stethoscope over the
brachial artery. This artery is located at the center of
the anterior elbow and maybe identified by feeling its
pulsations. The instrument must be placed flat against
the artery (do not allow the stethoscope or the tubing
to touch the patients clothing as it will create sounds
that may confuse your reading).

Cont.
Place the gauge of the sphygmomanometer on a flat

surface that it can be easily read.

Place the earpieces of the stethoscope in your ears.
They must fit snugly.
Tighten the thumbscrew of the pressure bulb and
pump the bulb until the indicator or mercury reaches
180 mm Hg or until you are no longer able to hear the
pulse beat.
Open the valve by slowly loosening the thumb screw.
Allow the indicator to fall slowly as you listen for the
first audible pulse beat. Listen carefully for the pulse
beat to begin and take the reading on the gauge
where it is first heard. (the first reading is the systolic
blood pressure)

Cont.
Procedure for measuring blood pressure using
aneroid manometer:
Position the patient correctly
Place the cuff on patients arm
Locate the brachial artery
Inflate the cuff
Measure the systolic pressure
Measure the diastolic pressure

NORMAL VALUES
Blood pressure rises with each heartbeat

and falls when your heart relaxes between

beats. While BP can change from minute to
minute with changes in posture, exercise,
stress or sleep, it should normally be less
than 120/80 mm Hg (less than 120 systolic
AND less than 80 diastolic) for an adult age
20 or over.
- If the systolic reading is 120 and the diastolic
reading is 80, it is written BP 120/80 and is
read one twenty over eighty. If the diastolic
reading is soft at 80 and then completely