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02 January 2019

Volume 28 | Issue 2

ISSN (Print): 0966-0461

ISSN (Online): 2052-2819

How to take manual blood pressure

A BP measurement in its simplest form is a determinant of individual cardiac output (the volume of blood pumped out of the heart and into the aorta per minute) and the systematic vascular resistance (the diameter of the arterial blood vessels) (Foley, 2015)..

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