Auscultatory method of measuring blood pressure ppt

Blood pressure measurement Presented by -Deepika Jain -Divya Jain

Blood pressure Normal blood pressure Blood pressure of 140/90 Blood pressure (BP) is a force exerted by circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. During each heartbeat, BP varies between a maximum (systolic) and a minimum (diastolic) pressure. Normal blood pressure Blood pressure of 140/90

METHODS FOR BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT DIRECT METHOD INDIRECT METHOD

INDIRECT METHOD OF BLOOD PRESSURE MEASURMENT KOROTOKOFF SOUNDS METHOD AUSCULTATORY METHOD OSICILLOMETRIC METHOD RHEOGRAPHIC METHOD

KOROTOKOFF SOUNDS Korotkoff are the sounds that medical personnel listen for when they are taking blood pressure using a non-invasive procedure. If the pressure is dropped to a level equal to that of the patient's systolic blood pressure, the first Korotkoff sound will be heard. As the pressure in the cuff is the same as the pressure produced by the heart, some blood will be able to pass through the upper arm when the pressure in the artery rises during systole.

The sounds heard during measurement of blood pressure are not the same as the heart sounds 'lub' and 'dub' that are due to the closing of the hearts valves. If a stethoscope is placed over the brachial artery in the antecubital fossa in a normal person (without arterial disease), no sound should be audible. As the heart beats, these pulses are transmitted smoothly via laminar (non-turbulent) blood flow throughout the arteries and no sound is produced. Also, if the cuff of a sphygmomanometer is placed around a patient's upper arm and inflated to a pressure above the patient's systolic blood pressure, there will be no sound audible. This is because the pressure in the cuff is high enough such that it completely occludes the blood flow. It is similar to a flexible tube or pipe with fluid in it that is being pinched shut. .

As the pressure in the cuff is allowed to fall further, thumping sounds continue to be heard as long as the pressure in the cuff is between the systolic and diastolic pressures, as the arterial pressure keeps on rising above and dropping back below the pressure in the cuff. Eventually, as the pressure in the cuff drops further, the sounds change in quality, then become muted, then disappear altogether. As the pressure in the cuff drops below the diastolic blood pressure, the cuff no longer provides any restriction to blood flow allowing the blood flow to become smooth again with no turbulence and thus produce no further audible sound

THE FIVE KOROTOKOFF SOUNDS Korotkoff actually described five types of Korotkoff sounds: The first Korotkoff sound is the snapping sound first heard at the systolic pressure. The second sounds are the murmurs heard for most of the area between the systolic and diastolic pressures. The third = A loud, crisp tapping sound. The fourth sound, at pressures within 10 mmHg above the diastolic blood pressure, were described as "thumping" and "muting". The fifth Korotkoff sound is silence as the cuff pressure drops below the diastolic blood pressure. The second and third Korotkoff sounds haven't had clinical significance.

AUSCULATORY METHOD The auscultatory method (from the Latin word for listening) uses a stethoscope and a sphygmomanometer. This comprises an inflatable cuff placed around the upper arm at roughly the same vertical height as the heart, attached to mercury or aneroid manometer . The mercury manometer measures the height of a column of mercury, giving an absolute result without need for calibration, and consequently not subject to the errors and drift of calibration which affect other methods. The use of mercury manometers is often required in clinical trials and for the clinical measurement of hypertension in high risk patients, such as pregnant women.

A cuff of appropriate size is fitted smoothly ,then inflated manually by repeatedly squeezing a rubber bulb until the artery is completely occluded. Listening with the stethoscope to the brachial artery at the elbow, the examiner slowly releases the pressure in the cuff. When blood just starts to flow in the artery, the turbulent flow creates a "whooshing" or pounding (first Korotkoff sound). The pressure at which this sound is first heard is the systolic BP. The cuff pressure is further released until no sound can be heard (fifth Korotkoff sound), at the diastolic arterial pressure. The auscultatory method has been predominant since the beginning of BP measurements but in other cases it's being replaced by other noninvasive techniques.

Auscultatory method aneroid sphygmomanometer with stethoscope

MERCURY MANOMETER

OSCILLOMETRIC METHOD

OSCILLOMETRIC METHOD Automated method of non invasive BP measurement It has some distinct advantages over the auscultatory method Sound is not used during measurement This technique does not require a microphone or transducer in the cuff.

Disadvantage of oscillometric method as well as auscultatory method is that the excessive movement or vibration can cause inaccurate readings PRINCIPLE “occluding cuff deflates from a level above the systolic pressure,the artery walls begin to vibrate as the blood flows through the partially occluded artery and these vibrations will be sensed in the transducer system monitoring cuff pressure”

The cuff pressure at the point of maximum oscillations usually corresponds to the mean arterial pressure. The point above the mean pressure at which the oscillations begin to rapidly decease in amplitude correlates with the diastolic pressure.

RHEOGRAPHIC METHOD A fully automatic apparatus for measuring systolic and diastolic BP has been developed using the ordinary cuff and the principle of rheographic detection of an arterial pulse. The change in impedance at two points under the occluding cuff form the basis of detection of the diastolic pressure.

In this method,a set of 3 electrodes are placed in contact with the skin A good contact is essential to reduce the skin elctrode contact impedance. Electrode B which acts as a common electrode is positioned slightly distal from the midline of the cuff.

Electrode A and C are placed at a certain distance from the electrode B,one distally and other proximally. High freq current source of 100KHz at the input. When we measure the impedance b/w any two electrodes b4 pressurizing the cuff,it shows modulation in accordance with the blood flow pulsations in the artery.

ADVANTAGES In this method of measuring BP,the cuff need not be precisely positioned as in the case with the korotkoff microphone which is to be fixed exactly above an artery. Also, the readings are not affected by ambient sound.

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