Monitoring Blood Pressure

Which Instrument is used to measure blood pressure?

• Manometer

• sphygmomanometer

• Berometer

• Thermometer

Contraction of a ventricular is called

• Systole

• Diastole

• Pulse

• Cardiac output

Blood pressure is a force which exerted by blood against?

• Artery wall

• Brain

• Kidney

• None of all

Blood pressure is measured in terms of

• HG

• mmHg

• MM

• Hgmm

Low blood pressure is known as hypotension.

• True

• False

Normal range of Blood pressure in a healthy individual is

• 120/80

• 130/90

• 100/50

• 170/100

Before monitoring a patient's blood pressure , it is important that the patient is sitting for 5 minutes.

• True

• False

In elderly supine  and standing position can be used to detect postural hypotension.

• True

• False

Automatic blood pressure machine can give false reading if a patient is

• Shaking

• agitated

• Not keeping arm still

• None of these

Different age groups have different standard normal blood pressure readings.

• True

• false