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The second measurement or bottom number of blood pressure is the diastolic number. This number measures the pressure in the arteries between heartbeats.
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When you take someone's blood pressure you are measuring the pressure during the contraction and relaxation phases of the heart muscle?
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What is sphygmomanometers?
It is an instrument for measuring blood pressure and especially arterial blood pressure. :)
What is a blood pressure dinamap?
a blood pressure measuring device that largely replaced sphygmomanometers
How do you use a sphygmanometer?
a pressure gauge for measuring blood pressure
A sphygmomonometer is used for?
measuring blood pressure
When a doctor take your blood pressure what is being measuring?
The pressure exerted against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps; and again as the heart rests.
What is blood pressure measurement?
the non-invasive measurement of the pressure exerted by the circulating blood on the walls of the body's arteries.
What is the function of shygmomanometer?
An instrument for measuring blood pressure.
Who invented the blood pressure measuring system?
Samuel Siegried Karl Ritter von Basch invented the blood pressure measuring system or the sphygmomanometer. He invented it in 1881.
How do ordinary people call a sphygmomanometer?
A pressure gauge for measuring blood pressure
How do you use a sphygmomamometer?
a instrument used for measuring blood pressure
What is disatolic?
When measuring blood pressure, this is the lower number. It is the pressure in the heart as it rests between beats.
