Manual Blood Pressure One Step Method

How to do a manual blood pressure using the one step method.

Note: generally the numbers for diastolic and systolic numbers have to be even when using simple clinical tools such as the manual blood pressure machine. (in this video, the systolic should be 120 and diastolic 80). This is because the manual tools are generally calibrated to be accurate within 2mmhg.

Automatic blood pressure machines are usually calibrated to be more accurate to within 1mmhg (and display odd number readings), but if you suspect anything to be wrong, incorrect or need to confirm an unusually high/low BP from the automatic machines, then proceed to confirm with a manual blood pressure reading.

Your measurements are only as accurate as the method of collecting, which is why in the ICU and ER, an arterial line is used to obtain blood pressure readings in unstable/critical patients to obtain more accurate numbers and can display odd number readings.

[DestyniLassiter]

Only even numbers while taking bp .they may have been 118/ 80

[July-A]

Hi, do you ignore the faint sound in your measurements. There is some 10-20 of faint beating sound before it becomes loud and clear and then faints again.

[koshun]

Sir the numbers on a manual bp gauge are always even numbers 🙂

[vbphysiologyexp]

При показателях 119/79 и пульсе 60, давление будет 48, 49 мм рт ст( в пределах нормы).

[johnjohnson]

I cant hear my pulse in the stethoscope, can I go by the needle on meter jumping?

[donaldpedigo]

👍.. EXCELLENT DEMONSTRATION .. Especially the 2--to--3 Millimeters-Per-Second "Fall-Rate" of the Needle on the Mano-Meter-Dial ..👍

[hovigkoltougian]

No such thing as 119 over 89. 😂
Your systolic and diastolic reading should always be at even numbers.