An Introduction To Automated Blood Pressure Monitoring

Over the years, we've developed numerous white papers covering a wide range of topics. Through our work with hundreds of end users, we've discovered there are still elements of automated blood pressure monitoring that are misunderstood. As a result, we felt compelled to put together a comprehensive guide to automated BP monitoring to help increase knowledge and awareness. Much of this information has been pulled from our existing white papers that can be found at http://www.suntechmed.com/bp-devices-and-cuffs/suntech-247#White_Papers.

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Hypertension in Children: The Importance of Patient Interaction

As a follow-up to our post, "Hypertension in Children: An Easier Method of Identification", the measurement and diagnosis of high blood pressure in children brings up another issue...the importance of how blood pressure is measured. Automated measurement is so prevalent with the use of home BP devices and patient monitors in hospitals and clinics that it is often assumed that automated techniques must always match the tried-and-true approach of manual measurement with a sphygmomanometer. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.

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Online Blood Pressure Measurement Resources

Since our initial blog post '10 steps to Accurate Manual Blood Pressure Measurement', we've had a few readers contact us seeking some more resources related to taking manual blood pressures and hypertension in general. Below are a couple of websites we've found helpful on these topics.

1. An easy to understand demonstration of blood pressure

The European Society of Hypertension (ESH) created a simple guide to everything blood pressure.  The animated menu covers everything from the physiology basics to treatment options.  It’s a great education tool for patients- click the link below to give it a try!

http://www.my-hypertension.org/blood-pressure-simple-guide/index_eng.htm

2. A video tutorial and technique test on blood pressure measurement from the British Hypertension Society (BHS)

The first section of this tutorial is a video of blood pressure measurement.

The remainder of this section allows you to test your accuracy by recording 34 blood pressure values and comparing your results with those obtained by 24 experienced observers. It's a simple and effective way to stay in practice with manual BP measurement

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/medical/bhs/tutorial/tutorial.htm

Hypertension in Children: An Easier Method of Identification

When you walk down a busy street or visit a popular fast food restaurant it's easy to see that we have a growing problem: obesity. Not only are a growing number of adults overweight, but now more children are becoming overweight. What may not be so obvious are the other risk factors that are generally elevated with obesity, one of which is blood pressure.

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