{"id":359,"date":"2022-12-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2022-12-19T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T15:32:26","slug":"tips-for-accurate-blood-pressure-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/19\/tips-for-accurate-blood-pressure-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Accurate Blood Pressure Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inaccurate blood pressure readings can mislead clinicians and give patients a false clean bill of health. There are small mistakes that can easily arise when taking a patients blood pressure such as not having their feet to the ground, not lining up the cuff with the artery, placing the cuff too tight, and talking during measurement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SunTech has provided us with a &#8220;Tips for Accurate Blood Pressure Readings&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/suntechmed.com\/support\/document-library\/send\/36-suntech-medical\/882-82-0532-00-tips-for-accurate-blood-pressure-readings-poster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poster<\/a> that reminds clinicians, in a fun way, on how to take an accurate measurement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bp-tips.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bp-tips.png 936w, http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bp-tips-300x193.png 300w, http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bp-tips-768x493.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inaccurate blood pressure readings can mislead clinicians and give patients a false clean bill of health. There are small mistakes that can easily arise when taking a patients blood pressure such as not having their feet to the ground, not lining up the cuff with the artery, placing the cuff too tight, and talking during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blood-pressure-monitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}