- Harish Jharia
Recently I happened to interact with one of my relatives, incidentally a doctor. We had a discussion on hypertension
that is commonly called blood pressure or BP in short. I had a simple question that how a doctor is expected to measure BP of a person? The relative liked the question and preferred to answer in a bit detailed way:He said that, at the time of measuring blood pressure the patient is asked to lie-down, outstretched on a flat surface extending the arms at sides of the body at the level of the heart.
Blood pressure is then measured with a small, portable instrument called a Sphygmomanometer
or blood pressure cuff. Doctors place the cuff around the upper arm of a patient and inflate the same with an air pump to a pressure until it blocks the flow of blood in the main artery. The measurement is taken (in mm Hg units) from a scale placed along the vertical mercury column that increases and decreases on inflating or deflating the cuff. 
The pressure of the cuff on the arm and artery is then gradually released by the doctor. As the pressure in the cuff decreases, the doctor hears the pulsating sound-beats by placing the sensor of a stethoscope over the artery at the front of the elbow.
• At a particular pressure the flow of the blood circulation starts. The pressure at which the practitioner first hears a pulsation from the artery is called systolic pressure
. • As the cuff pressure further decreases, the pressure at which the pulsation finally stops is called diastolic pressure
. Blood Pressure observed as "Systolic- 120 / Diastolic- 80", commonly expressed as 120 / 80 is considered normal in a healthy young person.
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- Harish Jharia
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