Taking a Blood Pressure Clinical Assessment - Clinical Skills Revision - Dr Gill
When students begin at medical school, one the first clinical skills that they are requested to master - in fact in week one of the course is how to take a manual reading of a patient's blood pressure and interpreting blood pressure reading as part of the overall clinical assessment
When you are used to using the bladder and sphygmomanometer, it is very simple clinical skill, but in the first weeks of medical school, this can be a real challenge.
So here we set out the clinical assessment of the blood pressure as a clinical examination demonstration
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00:00 - Introduction and Patient Verification 00:30 - Explaining the Blood Pressure Assessment Process 00:50 - Blood Pressure Measurement 01:30 - Listening to Confirm Blood Pressure Readings 02:00 - Blood Pressure Reading Results and Switching Arms 03:10 - Final Blood Pressure Readings and Conclusion
okay
hello my name is dr gil i've been asked
a blood pressure assessment on yourself
before we go any further could i confirm
your name and date of birth please my
name is david rogerson
uh dated birth 16th of the 9th 1991
perfect okay
okay so in terms of checking your blood
pressure that's going to involve putting
a cuff on your arm
increasing up the pressure it may be
uncomfortable but it shouldn't be
painful
and also listening over the um your arm
to listen to your
pulse would that be okay that's fine
okay so to start off are you right or
left-handed
right okay so we'll start off on your
right
i'm just going to take the cuff we've
got a good size there
and we're going to put this around
against the artery
okay now just relax your arm down so
you're going to increase the pressure
and i'm just going to check your pulse
as we do
yes yes so yes yes yes
okay so i can feel the pulse there and
that's about 120.
we're going to do the same again now but
i'm going to listen to confirm the
noises
and just relax back
that's fine so that's 122 over 70.
and we should change over to the other
arm if we might
that and just relax back for me okay
we're gonna do the same again so just
taking your pulse
okay and we're just going to confirm
that
with the stethoscope
so just relax the time back
okay done with greater detail that's
about 128
over seven okay so those blood pressures
are certainly good for your age so do
you have any other questions to myself
today
well thank you very much for your time
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