How do you take a blood pressue reading? Or read the gauge?!


Question: How do you take a blood pressue reading!? Or read the gauge!?
I know you put the thing around your left arm, inflate (not sure to what) and the the directions say to listen for a thumping systolic sound and a last swishing diastolic sound!.!.!.!.!.!.

Does this mean when you hear the first thump then thats the systolic reading and the swish is the diastolic reading!?!? I never hear a swish!.!.!.!.!?!?!?!?!.!.!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
I took tons of BP's when I was an EMT/Paramedic!. Normally you inflate it to 200 but if that is too tight on your arm you can go to 180!. Slowly let off the air!. When you hear the first loud beat that is your systolic number, continue to slowly let off air, you will keep hearing beats that all sound the same, when you hear the first beat that sounds different from what you were hearing all along that is your diastolic number!. So it is a difference in the sound of the beats!. Some people let it go down until they hear no beats at all, that is WRONG, it is the change in the sound of the beats!. I taught how to take BP's when I was a Paramedic!. If you wait until there are no beats the diastolic number will be wrong!. If this is for taking your own BP they have BP monitors you can buy for $20-30 and they are accurate, they also give your pulse rate!. When takig a blood pressure, never go by the jumping of the needle, it is usually wrong by several degrees!. Just ask any Dr!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

ok, you're almost absolutely right after you inflate the cuff and listen for the beat, the first beat you hear is the systolic, then the last beat you hear is the diastolic!.
You can also just look at the cuff and take a BP!. When the needle jumps the first time its the systolic, and then it will keep kinda "jumping", the last time jumps and starts moving faster thats the diastolic!. Does that make any sense to you!?Www@Answer-Health@Com





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