Understanding Blood Pressure Numbers - Deep Dive Clinical Skills - Medical School Revision - Dr Gill

Understanding Blood Pressure Numbers - Deep Dive Clinical Skills - Understanding the Medicine - Dr Gill

Understanding BP measurements seems quite a challenge, but actually interpreting blood pressure readings is very simple. Clinically the checking the blood pressure is probably one of the most common clinical skills after how to take a pulse

Blood pressure is the amount of force caused by blood pressing against the walls of your arteries - but there is quite a bit of science behind what the systolic and diastolic pressures and we are going to try and explain that here so you can understand the function of the blood pressure cuff, and how the pressures in the cuff relate to the calculation of the bloods pressure

Here we’re going to have run through about how we read the blood pressure, the Koroatoff sounds that enable use to determine a blood pressure, and how those are generated

In this overview of the clinical assessment of blood pressure we will be dealing solely with the theory of this basic clinical skill before release of the clinical examination next week

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00:00 - Introduction
00:27 - How to Measure Blood Pressure
02:08 - Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure
03:40 - Consequences of High and Low Blood Pressure
05:46 - Using a Sphygmomanometer and Stethoscope
07:23 - Listening for Korotkoff Sounds
08:55 - Correct Positioning for Blood Pressure Measurement
09:22 - Practical Demonstration in Next Video