How To Take Someone's Blood Pressure

Taking someone's blood pressure is not a hard thing to do but there are a few things you should know of before you go about doing it. You do not need to be a nurse or you don't need any real kind of medical history or background, you just need to know a few tips and how to go about measuring someone’s blood pressure. I am going to show you the standard procedure of going about taking a patient’s blood pressure.

This is a very easy thing and almost anyone can do it. All you need to do is get a pen and a piece of paper and write down some of these steps.

The first thing that you are going to want to do is tell the person to rest for a few minutes so that they will become calm and their blood pressure will be relaxed. This way you will be able to get a fairly accurate reading on your patient. You will probably only need to let them rest for somewhere between 5 to 10 minutes.

It is best that you position yourself in a really comfortable position. You will also want to make sure that your patient is in a nice comfortable position as well. Get a position where the arm is on the desk or table so that it is about the level of their heart.

An important thing that you will want to do is make sure that the cuff size of the monitor is the correct size for your patient. If the cuff size is not the correct fit, then you will have a really hard time at getting an accurate reading on your blood pressure monitor.



Place the cuff so that it is snug on the upper part of your patient’s bare arm. Then once you have done this you can place the stethoscope into your ears. The next thing that you will need to do is inflate the cuff by squeezing the little rubber bulb to about a systolic pressure of about two hundred or so.

You need to also make sure that when you are inflating the stethoscope that you are doing it quickly, because if you do it too slowly you will then be likely to get a false or inaccurate reading. It is important that you try to make your reading as accurate as you possibly can.

Once you are at this point in the procedure, you can start to loosen the value and slowly let out some of the air in the cuff. Slowly deflate the cuff and listen to the heartbeat. Be sure to listen to the first heartbeat that you hear. This number is very important as it is the systolic pressure.

When you deflate the cuff you should hear the heart beat stop. When this happens write down the number on the dial and this is going to be your diastolic pressure. Once you get the two numbers down you will be able to figure out your patient’s blood pressure.

It’s as easy as that really. It doesn’t matter if you are a trained professional or not, you just need to remember some of these tips so that you can get the most accurate reading as possible. An inaccurate or false reading is pretty much useless.

Here is a video that will show you how to take someone's blood pressure.