Question

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comment on the following case: Blood pressure

You go to the doctor for your routine appointment. One of the things they do at first is take your blood pressure. I ask the nurse and the doctor: why should the bracelet be held at the level of the heart? How does the blood flow in the heart? And what happens in the body when the pressure is high and low?

Answer 1

Blood pressure is defined as the amount of pressure excerted on the walls of the arteries as the blood moves through them. It is taken by two measurments.

Systolic--measured when the heart beats , when blood pressure is at the heighest

Diastolic--measured between heart beats when blood presuure is at its lowest.

why should the bracelet be held at the level of the heart?

Blood pressure results are affected by body position and wrist position , means that readings taken with the upper body in an upright position and wrist supported at the heart level will provide you results that are consistent with your standard positioning guide

How does the blood flow in the heart?

Blood enters the heart through two large veins the inferior vena cava and superior vena cava empting oxygen poor blood from the body into the right atrium . As the atrium contracts , blood flows from your right atrium in to right ventricle through the tricuspid valve.

i would like to explain little bit simple

The right ventricle pumps the oxigen poor blood to the lungs through the pulmonary valve. The left atrium receives oxygen rich blood from lungs and pumps it to the left ventricle through the mitral valve. The left ventricle pumps the oxygen rich blood through the aortic valve to the rest of the body.

what happens in the body when the pressure is high and low?

When the blood pressure is heigh , it can be damage the artery and blood vessel walls over time. This leads to dangerous complications and even death it left untreated.

High blood pressure is known as HYPERTENSION is a condition which the blood vessels have presistently raised pressure. blood is carried from the heart to all parts of the body in the vessels.

Complications of Hypertension

• heart attack / strock
• Aneurysm
• Heart Failure
• Weakened and narrowed blood vessels in your kidneys
• Dementia
• memory impairment

Low blood pressure can depride your body of enough oxygen to carry out its functions, leading to damage to your heart and barin. It causes dizziness, weakness, fainting and risk for injury from falls.