Oh my goodness!!!! I just want to say thank you!!! I am taking a CNA class and blood pressure is a skill I need to learn and I was really starting to get discouraged because I was never able to hear anything through my stethoscope. I tried 3 differents steths thinking that was my problem but never did I realize it was the location of my diaphram that was all wrong. I tried your technique and I heard the beats loud and clear. I was also not putting the cuff on properly. U are truly a life saver
Great point about the placement of the cuff bladder! The other key point, perhaps more important, is the choice of cuff size: The right sized cuff is critical since the use of a cuff that is too small for the arm will often give a BP higher than what is really is. I see this ALL the time in the hospital as an obgyn working with patients in labor and delivery. The marking with numbers and a range refer to circumference and the edge of the cuff is the part that should line up within those two numbers when the cuff wraps around the arm.
Oh my gosh this video saved me. My test is tomorrow for Med Occ and i always barely heard the beats. I was placing it way to low on the arm! Thanks so much.
I tried your method and will be using it for now on because I had to strain to hear my heartbeats in the stethoscope. Thanks. Edit to this post I notice that ADC Diagnostix recommend the cuff position you demonstrate also. I was quite surprised to see this in the instructions of my mercury sphygmomanometer. So there are a lot of doctors and nurses that need to retrain in how to take blood pressure accurately.
I will have to try that the next time I take my blood pressure now that I'm required to do so. This makes a lot more sense that the artery marking would go over the artery on the inside of the arm instead of lining the artery marking using the forearm. It seems like everyone got their own method of taking blood pressure, but your video got my attention.
@teddygirl2009 I am 19 and was 18 when I got my emt certification. If taught right then it should not matter the age of the person taking the blood pressure. I have not had any complaints when taking blood pressures let alone patient care.
Does it matter what arm?? Also, aren't they supposed to be sitting. Seems easy to put it on their left arm standing, but sitting you'd have to reach across them with a chair and table.
Arm choice doesn't matter. Just make sure you line up with the artery. It's always good to ask arm preference from a patient as some people cannot have blood pressure taken on certain arms (people with fistulas for example). Depending on your field I'd suggest looking into taking pressures using the forearm and thigh too.
Oh my goodness!!!! I just want to say thank you!!! I am taking a CNA class and blood pressure is a skill I need to learn and I was really starting to get discouraged because I was never able to hear anything through my stethoscope. I tried 3 differents steths thinking that was my problem but never did I realize it was the location of my diaphram that was all wrong. I tried your technique and I heard the beats loud and clear. I was also not putting the cuff on properly. U are truly a life saver
Better explanation than any Doctor video I've seen. Great job.
So helpful, thank you! I was having a hard time hearing the heart beat until I watched yoru videos!!
This helps me sooo much! Going to school at EMT we just started learning how to do this. Now it makes much more sense
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@@Bilbus7 I wanted to know that as well it's been 6 years now since she posted this comment
Great point about the placement of the cuff bladder!
The other key point, perhaps more important, is the choice of cuff size: The right sized cuff is critical since the use of a cuff that is too small for the arm will often give a BP higher than what is really is. I see this ALL the time in the hospital as an obgyn working with patients in labor and delivery.
The marking with numbers and a range refer to circumference and the edge of the cuff is the part that should line up within those two numbers when the cuff wraps around the arm.
Oh my gosh this video saved me. My test is tomorrow for Med Occ and i always barely heard the beats. I was placing it way to low on the arm! Thanks so much.
yay so glad I finally found this video so helpful! my third day of my clinical and I needed this video! will try this out tomorrow! Thanks!
I tried your method and will be using it for now on because I had to strain to hear my heartbeats in the stethoscope. Thanks.
Edit to this post
I notice that ADC Diagnostix recommend the cuff position you demonstrate also. I was quite surprised to see this in the instructions of my mercury sphygmomanometer. So there are a lot of doctors and nurses that need to retrain in how to take blood pressure accurately.
I will have to try that the next time I take my blood pressure now that I'm required to do so. This makes a lot more sense that the artery marking would go over the artery on the inside of the arm instead of lining the artery marking using the forearm. It seems like everyone got their own method of taking blood pressure, but your video got my attention.
wow ive been postioning that wrong on all of my patients(first semester nursing student)
! thank you very much for posting this...
Thanks for posting this video. It help me a lot to do my CNA training Right!
thank you for doing this video, I am in EMT training now and was looking for a great video such as this
Thank you sooo much! This was incredibly helpful!
I really appreciate this video.
@teddygirl2009 I am 19 and was 18 when I got my emt certification. If taught right then it should not matter the age of the person taking the blood pressure. I have not had any complaints when taking blood pressures let alone patient care.
just to clarification purposes do we asked the patients to sit or laydown? are we taking BP with out ruling out the auscultatory gap?
Wow. Excellent video
Does it matter what arm?? Also, aren't they supposed to be sitting. Seems easy to put it on their left arm standing, but sitting you'd have to reach across them with a chair and table.
Arm choice doesn't matter. Just make sure you line up with the artery. It's always good to ask arm preference from a patient as some people cannot have blood pressure taken on certain arms (people with fistulas for example). Depending on your field I'd suggest looking into taking pressures using the forearm and thigh too.
Very helpful, thanks.
wow thank you
3:23 "of course id use a bp cuff to do that" - he meant a stethoscope =]
My Principles of Health Science class noticed this. I love this video! :)
thank you :) so very much
I thk that helps!!!
now I see the artery braicial
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