What is the technical name for a blood pressure cuff?

Answer 1

As noted, it is extremely important to make sure your health provider uses the correct size of blood pressure cuff for you. Using a regular cuff on a fat person has been found to artificially inflate blood pressure significantly. If they do not use the correct-sized cuff on you, they will be basing your medical diagnosis and treatment plan on INVALID DATA. It is essential that this number be accurate. It is particularly critical to have an accurate reading of blood pressure in pregnancy due to concerns about Pre-Eclampsia/Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension (PE/PIH). Outside of pregnancy, a borderline BP number is not pursued as vigorously, but in pregnancy most OBs get very nervous about borderline blood pressures, and will start very aggressive interventions very quickly. Because some cases of PIH progress rapidly to PE and can endanger the baby and the mother, OBs tend to be extremely interventive about borderline blood pressures in pregnancy. Therefore it is extremely important to have accurate data on which to base these critical decisions.

Answer 2

The bladder is wrapped around the upper part of the arm and secured by Velcro. It has tubing and a valve that is also attached to a gauge or reading meter. When the blood pressure bulb is worked by push-button or manually pumped, it sends out air past the valve and through the tubing. The forced air causes the blood pressure cuff to inflate, creating pressure on the arm and blood vessels

Answer 3

The cuff inflates to a point where it stops the flow of blood to the lower arm. As the cuff is slowly deflated, the doctor can hear the point at which the blood starts to flow again. That is the Systolic pressure. As the cuff continues to deflate, the point at which the doctor can no longer hear anything in the stethoscope is the Diastolic pressure. That is how it works.

Answer 4

A blood pressure cuff (sphygmomanometer) works by exerting pressure on an artery. Together with a stethoscope you will be able to hear the Korotkoff sound. The Korotkoff sound is heard if the pressure exerted by the cuff is equal to the systolic pressure and disappears if the pressure exerted drops below the diastolic pressure.

So the start of the sound will signal the Systolic pressure and its disappearance the Diastolic pressure expressed in mmHg (millimeter Mercury)

Answer 5

Non-invasive blood pressure cuff is the medical term. They come in several sizes such as adult, bariatric, adult long, adult small, pediatric. infant, and neonate.

Answer 6

it's called Riva rocci cuff...

Riva rocci was a Russian

Answer 7

Measuring blood pressure

Answer 8

Sphygmomanometer