how to use SPHGMOMANOMETER in measuring blood preasure?

Question

manual reading blood preasure

Answer 1

Wrap the blood pressure cuff about the upper arm a short distance above the crease of the elbow. Two rubber tubes protrude from the cuff, one with the bulb for inflating the cuff, one attached to the meter; those tubes should be lying across the elbow. Place the stethoscope ear pieces into your ears, and place the diaphragm onto the anterior forearm just below the elbow; you can palpate for a pulse there and use that as your focal point. Pump the bulb while observing the meter until its needle or mercury reaches 200. Then slowly release the bulb while listening carefully for a heartbeat; when you hear it, note the number on the dial (this will be the systolic pressure or the upper number -- that will be the pumping pressure of the heart's pacing). Continue listening until you can no longer hear the beat; note the number on the dial again (that will be the diastolic pressure -- the relaxation phase of the heart's efforts -- and the lower number as you write the blood pressure.). Normal is 120/80 or lower; high 140/90 or higher -- dangerously high would be 200/100.

Answer 2

If there is a manual that came iwth it, use that to help get your blood pressure reading.
If there is no manual, you must have seen what the doctor does to check your BP. You do the same and put the stethescope on your arm and listen for the sound of a heartbeat when the cuff is deflated.
when you first hear bood after the cuff is deflated, that is the systolic reading. When it goes away after you slowly deflate from there, that is the other number.

Answer 3

Uh, be kinda careful when using it - don't leave it inflated at more than 150 for more than a minute because muscle starts dying, and that's a bad thing