To measure your blood pressure without errors, you need to follow the rules. These rules include emptying the bladder and choosing the right bladder.
For some reason, a distended bladder raises blood pressure. Now there is such a point that the bladder must be emptied before the measurement.
Many people know this, and when the next recommendations on arterial hypertension are published in English, they immediately notice the word "bladder" in the text. It just means the bladder.
Recently I came across some strange amateur translation of such recommendations into Russian and realized that it was not about a distended bladder, but about the size of some other bladder.
Not immediately, but it came to light that the matter was in the rubber part of the tonometer's cuff. She is also called "bladder" in English. It turns out that two bubbles are mentioned in the adjacent paragraphs. One is urinary and the other is rubber. It turned out funny.
The fact is that the cuff of the tonometer must fit exactly to the arm. If the cuff is too small, the measurement is likely to be overestimated.
The arm is measured with a regular measuring tape midway between the elbow and the shoulder joint. The girth of the arm in this place should fit into the numbers that are indicated on the cuff or in the instructions for the tonometer.
In theory, this rubber bubble in the cuff should be approximately 80% of the circumference of the arm and approximately 40% of the width of the arm.
One big aunt was very indignant when I told her that I couldn't measure her pressure with this tonometer. I thought I was lazy.
Is your cuff the right fit for you?
