account of blood pressure testing during a clinical simulative skill session The clinical skill that I have decided to reflect on in this essay is the manual blood pressure test that I have performed on one of my colleague during a simulative clinical skills session. The aim of this essay is to reflect on this experience‚ so as to learn from it‚ identify areas of concern and increase competence in this skill accordingly. To start the essay it is the custom to at least give a definition of blood pressure
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Proeung English 111 Professor Holder Blood Pressure Have you had your blood pressure taken recently? If you see your doctor for your yearly checkup‚ you would notice that the first thing they would do is check your vitals. Taking your blood pressure is one of the first steps when taking your vitals. Blood pressure refers to the force of blood pushing against artery walls as it courses through the body .Although many of you may not think that pressure of the blood system is not such a fascinating concept
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placement‚ I encountered an obese elderly man with type 2 diabetes who was bed bound. His BP was 98/73 so I decided to do a manual blood pressure (BP) to make sure it was not a mechanical error from the automatic machine and recorded 99/75. His other vital signs were in between the flags. I asked my patient how he was feeling‚ he said he felt fine. I told him his blood pressure was a bit low and if this was normal for him. He said it has been low a bit recently. I asked him if he could have a glass of
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WATCH YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE Introduction: Hey guys so I’m here to talk about how to Dance.... I’m just kidding; you guys just get so nervous that it feels like your just going to throw up? Well that is your blood just going through your veins like a bullet train. [Attention Getter]How many of you know what blood pressure is? It is the pressure exerted by the blood against the walls of the arteries. How many of you know on how high or low blood pressure really is? I mean most of us are nervous giving
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Introduction When the heart beats‚ it pumps blood round the body to give it the energy and oxygen it needs. As the blood moves‚ it pushes against the sides of the blood vessels. The strength of this pushing is your blood pressure. If the blood pressure is too high‚ it puts extra strain on your arteries (and your heart) and this may lead to heart attacks and strokes. Having high blood pressure (hypertension) is not usually something that you feel or notice. It does not tend to produce obvious signs
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Assessing Blood Pressure Anatomy of the Heart The heart is located in the thoracic cavity between the lungs within the mediastinum. It is a hollow‚ cone-shaped‚ muscular organ about the size of a fist. Functions of the Heart keeps O2-poor blood separate from O2-rich blood; keeps the blood flowing in one direction—blood flows away from and then back to the heart in each circuit; creates blood pressure‚ which moves the blood through the circuits; Regulates the blood supply based on
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Long-Term Intake of North American Ginseng Has No Effect on 24-Hour Blood Pressure and Renal Function P. Mark Stavro‚ Minna Woo‚ Lawrence A. Leiter‚ Tibor F. Heim‚ John L. Sievenpiper and Vladimir Vuksan Hypertension 2006;47;791-796; originally published online Mar 6‚ 2006; DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000205150.43169.2c Hypertension is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue‚ Dallas‚ TX 72514 Copyright © 2006 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN:
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Hormones can react to increase blood pressure when it becomes low‚ the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system uses several ways to temporarily increase blood pressure when it has dropped for example during the fight or flight response. During the response‚ the sympathetic division is needed to stimulate the adrenal glands to release the hormones epinephrine and norepineprine which stimulate the heart to beat faster and for blood to flow more forcefully‚ this effect makes most of the
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The things that count account for this difference between systolic pressure when the sound began‚ the stethoscope user heard it‚ and the computer operator pressed the event marker keystroke is because how fast sound travels. This comes into play because first the person using the stethoscope uses it‚ and he/she is not going to be able to react immediately to inform the computer user. There is a delay when the stethoscope user hears it from when the first sound begins‚ and then there is a delay when
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