Resting Blood Pressure

The lack of knowledge and confidence of obtaining a manual blood pressure is an ever growing issue in the healthcare field. This paper will outline the importance of taking a manual blood pressure accurately. Providing the proper blood pressure measurement can determine a patient’s care and outcome when in a healthcare facility. I will talk about the pros and cons of manual blood pressures and personal experience of this vital skill in the healthcare field. I will also provide some simple but effect ways to increase confidence and knowledge by just basic education. All of my information and numbers will be supported by using references and studies in the use of manual blood pressure monitoring.

(Marieb and Hoehn, 2010, p 703) defined Blood Pressure (BP) as ‘the force per unit area exerted on a vessel wall by the contained blood, and is expressed in millimetres of mercury (mm Hg)’. BP is still one of the essential and widely used assessment tools in healthcare settings. Nurses generally record the arterial BP which is the forced exerted blood that flows through the arteries, to establish a baseline and to determine any risk factors. BP

The range of normal resting diastolic BP for these patients was 75-85 mmHg. Did diastolic BP increase, decrease, or not change with exercise?

The purpose of arterial pressure and the pulse lab is to determine the effect of posture and exercise on systolic and diastolic pressure and the heart rate. And also in order to find the differences in the reading taken under these condition compares to the baseline reading. The Sphygmomanometer and stethoscope are used to measure the systolic and diastolic blood pressure, counting the beat on the radial artery will give the reading for pulse rate and by using the lab scribe software and IWX214, the blood pressure will be measured. In the heart, the aorta and the carotid arteries have baroreceptors and the chemoreceptors that identify the changes in arterial pressure and the changes in

| Which of the following resting pulse and resting blood pressure results would be typical of a well-conditioned athlete? 72 and 150/90; 48 and 110/80; 66 and 120/95; 84 and 110/75.

Ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) monitoring and ambulatory heart rate recording are regarded as the standard methods for the diagnosis and prediction of cardiovascular disease [1,2]. It has been reported that a non-dipping pattern of heart rate is strongly associated with increased risk of all mortality in epidemiological settings [3,4]. In addition, there are many recent reports on the clinical significance of ambulatory blood pressure. A non-dipping pattern and nocturnal hypertension are associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality [5]. On this basis, we raised some questions. Are there any relationship between HR dip and BP dip? The non-dipping situation expressed on what kind of patients? What can they predict?

People have been complaining that doctors have been telling their patients that they want their blood pressure to be lower every time they visit, but how low do doctors want their patients to go. People thought that doctors knew that when you get older, you need a higher blood pressure to harden arteries in the brain. Fifty years ago, studies showed that if you lower your blood pressure, you prevent heart attacks, strokes, and death, but specialists still didn’t discover how low your blood pressure should go. In the 1950s, doctors thought systolic pressure, which is the pressure of the heartbeat. How is exercise an ally in the battle for good blood pressure control? Long, large studies have found that those people whose systolic pressure is

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Figure 1 shows that the systolic and diastolic pressure while the subject was sitting down, 119/64, is lower than that of the other body positions and exercise. Standing showed the second lowest systolic and diastolic pressure, 121/83. Lying down showed a slightly higher blood pressure of 123/84. The highest blood pressure, 133/94, was measured when the subject had just completed some physical activity. Figure 2 and 3 display, respectively, the difference between heart contractions at rest and after exercise, as illustrated by the greater number of contractions following exercise in the same amount of time compared to resting conditions. In addition to displaying the interval lengths for three sequential beats from Figures 2 and 3, Table 1 also includes the heart rate for before and post exercise, 102 bpm and 132 bpm, respectively. Figure 4 shows similar

Sometimes it might be difficult to get all the patient’s blood pressure readings but if you know a patient suffers from hypertension, orthostatic hypotension, and other cardiovascular disease, as well as kidney disease you should at least try do one or two, especially differencing between systolic and diastolic readings. Doing so can help reassure the blood pressure is accurate to the when the aide took the blood pressure or even if the nurse suspects that a blood pressure reading might be incorrect or inaccurate, or other times to see if a medication took effect. Using evidence based practice on this topic will help support my findings statistically. The article given below demonstrates how taking an automated blood pressure can sometimes be beneficial but easily influenced by movements, on the other hand, manual blood pressure can be more beneficial because you could hear and see from the sphygmomanometer the systolic and diastolic reading. The results of the article came to a conclusion that using both methods the only reading significantly different is the systolic pressure, however, the diastolic pressure was influenced but not as much as the

Person X’s heart and ventilation rate was normal before the test because they had not begun exercising and were at a resting rate. The reason their heart and ventilation

This report focus on the cardiovascular system to obtain measurement, understand and compare the differences of blood pressure, heart rate, pulse pressure, systolic pressure, diastolic pressure under normal conditions and when exercising.

The effect of stress on short term blood pressure can be dramatic, leading to mean arterial pressure increases of 30%-40%. These changes are short lived, though, with heart rate, blood vessel diameter, and blood pressure returning to normal as the hormones are eliminated.

It would be at 6:00pm every other night. I would not do any big physical activity before measuring. I would measure on my right arm every time. I also kept my physical activity as a medium level. I didn’t change anything or do anything new or vigorous. My daily workout consisted of 1 mile running at a medium speed. And some pushups and sit ups followed my some weight lifting. This is a chart of my blood pressure readings over the course of these 2 weeks. The blood pressure didn’t change drastically but there was a lowering in blood pressure over the span of these two weeks. Our diets do have a great effect on our blood pressure and health. Looking at these results we can say that limiting your cholesterol intake and saturated fats and increasing intake of soluble fiber can lower your blood pressure and help prevent cardiac diseases. However because of the amount of variables that I did not take into consideration when creating the experiment makes it difficult to pin point exactly what is lowering your cholesterol. But your diet is still the important factor and this experiment confirms

I had the opportunity of taking care of two patients at one time. One of my patients’ glucose had been high, and the other patient blood pressure was high. The patient that I was giving medication to was the patient that had the high glucose. The other patient the nurse was going to give the medications; however, the nurse was having issues with logging into the computer system. The nurse need to call the physician, and make sure the patient did not have any PRN medications for the blood pressure. Because the nurse could not log into the computer system. I asked my classmate (the charge nurse for that weekend) to check my patient’s glucose while I worked with the nurse to get the information she needed to give to the physician. I logged into