4sExif II* ( 1 2 & ; 3 : m i 2011 Amanda Mills This image depicts a male nurse in the process of conducting a blood pressure examination upon a seated female patient in a clinical setting. Using a sphygmomanometer, consisting of a pressurized cuff encircling the patient’s right upper arm, and a monitor indicating changes in pressure with the cuff, the nurse was using a stethoscope in order to listen for, and record the sounds indicative of the high (systolic), and low (diastolic) pressure values used to measure blood pressure. Measuring your blood pressure is quick and painless. A doctor or health professional wraps an inflatable cuff with a pressure gauge around your arm to squeeze the blood vessels. Then he or she listens to your pulse with a stethoscope while releasing air from the cuff and watching the gauge. The gauge measures blood pressure in millimeters of mercury, which is abbreviated as mmHg.
Blood pressure is measured using two numbers. The first (systolic) number represents the pressure in your blood vessels when your heart beats. The second (diastolic) number represents the pressure in your vessels when your heart rests between beats. If the measurement reads 120 systolic and 80 diastolic, you would say "120 over 80" or write "120/80 mmHg." NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D300 ' ' Adobe Photoshop CS5 Macintosh 2012:02:21 12:52:06 Photographer: Mandie Mills/Commercial Photographer http://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/ CDC - Nat. Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Div. for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention: High Blood Pressure " ' 0221 X D ' } - 2011:06:13 22:18:49 2011:10:11 10:48:24 Jj @B A V ^ ( f + H H XICC_PROFILE HLino mntrRGB XYZ 1 acspMSFT IEC sRGB -HP cprt P 3desc lwtpt bkpt rXYZ gXYZ , bXYZ @ dmnd T pdmdd vued L view $lumi meas $tech 0 rTRC <