Lecture part 4

Question 1

With patient there is no talking and no conversation when taking blood pressure, they just need to be sitting there resting comfortably for 5 minutes before taking blood pressure

Question 2

If you have a _____________ your blood pressure is going to be higher

Answer 2

full bladder

Question 3

If there is _________ that would raise blood pressure

Answer 3

stress

Question 4

Measure the widest part of the arm in order to determine the correct blood pressure cuff size

Question 5

What happens if the cuff is too big what does that do to the blood pressure reading? It’s falsely _________

Answer 5

low

Question 6

What if cuff is too small what happens to the blood pressure? It’s falsely __________

Answer 6

high

Question 7

Measuring circumference of _______ is critical to make sure you have the right size cuff

Answer 7

arm

Question 8

Part of cuff aligns with the brachial artery which is an important step in blood pressure check list…if its not aligned its not proper placement and you will get points taken off for that

Question 9

To align with ________ artery is proper inflation

Answer 9

brachial

Question 10

_______________ this is American heart association accurate way to take a blood pressure and what it does is you inflate the cuff and your palpating because your trying to estimate the systolic

Answer 10

point of maximal inflation

Question 11

So palpating and inflating…no stethoscope yet

Question 12

The point at which the pulse disappears as your palpating it so your occluding the pulse is going to disappear its that number on the sphygmomanometer meaning it will disappear at 140 so I know that I need to inflate the cuff to 160 or 170 you add 20 to 30 points to it so that when your measuring the blood pressure you don’t miss the systolic coming down

Question 13

Point of maximal inflation (PMI)

Question 14

When measuring orthostatic which is performing a blood pressure measurement in the standing position, seated position, and then laying down flat its important to wait a minimum of ________minutes in between position changes so that the body has time to compensate for the change in position and then measure a blood pressure and a pulse in each of those individual positions

Answer 14

three

Question 15

It’s what you hear coordinated with what you see

Question 16

Blood pressure is 126 over 88 (these are even numbers…if you give odd numbers you get points off..odd numbers CANNOT BE GIVEN BECAUSE ITS NOT ACCURATE

Question 17

Ticks on sphygmomanometer are ___________ numbers

Answer 17

even numbers