What do you listen for when taking a blood pressure? What do you hear?

Answer 1

You pump up the cuff to where you don't hear anything. Then you slowly deflate the cuff, and when you first hear the "heartbeat" (really, the blood flow), that's the top number. Let the cuff deflate, and it'll get to where you can't hear it anymore. The point at which you don't hear it anymore is the bottom number.

Answer 2

When taking a blood pressure you are listening for a diastolic and systolic heart beat. The average person's blood pressure is somewhere between 110 over 70 to 120 over 80, therefore you must first pump the blood pressure cuff up to an amount over the average top number. Pump it up to about 180-190 hold for a few seconds to constrict the blood flow and then release the pressure very slowly. Listen carefully for the first noticable (bump) sound you hear. This is your top number. Then continue to listen until you can no longer hear a (bump) noise any more. Not the corresponding number when you hear the last (bump).This will be the lower number. It is very easy once you get the hang of listening and correlating the sounds with the numbers on the sphygmomanometer(the dial part of the blood pressure cuff). Make sure to change arms each time you practice since checking the same arm over and over again in a short amount of time can alter the results. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

When measuring blood pressure, you are hearing the pumping of the blood in the blood vessel, basically the blood "pressure". It is the pressure of the blood in the arteries. You increase the cuff pressure up until you cut off the blood ( no sound) up to the time you hear it again and then dissapear again. ( It sounds like heart beat, except it is not exactly heart beat). When you hear the sound first the number you see is the systolic pressure (bigger number) - shows the pressure in your arteries when your heart is forcing blood through them and the number you get when it disappears is the diastolic pressure (smaller number) -shows the pressure in your arteries when your heart relaxes.

Answer 5

you listen for a heartbeat

Answer 6

you listen for the heart beat...like a thump...bump...kinda sound