Pressure

Mr. Michael is 70yrs old that weights 185lb and height of 65 inches. He has hypertension, diarrhea, depression, glaucoma, and osteoporosis. Blood pressure goes up when you are active and down when you are resting or sleeping. Sudden, dangerously high, and life-threatening blood pressure is called hypertension. His blood pressure is 170/80mmhg. Several types of drugs are used to control hypertension. These medications may be used alone or combination with other drugs. ACE inhibitors block…

Elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) is a common and potentially life threatening condition arising from a variety of pathological conditions including traumatic brain injury (TBI), intracranial hemorrhage, disturbance of cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) circulation and brain tumors. Although ventriculostomy continues to be the gold standard modality, the potential risks of misplacement, infection, hemorrhage and obstruction have led to development and implementation of alternative intracranial…

venous system were also tested. In the tilt table test, the response of effect of gravity and sympathetic activation of the heart were being examined to determine the response of BP, MAP, PP, HR, SV, CO and TPR during Effects of Posture on Blood Pressure (BP). It was hypothesized that MAP, PP, HR, SV, CO and TPR would decrease upon tilt and MAP, PP, HR, SV and CO would increase back near baseline. The expected BP decrease is due the pooling of blood in the legs and lower organs of the body.…

ANEROID – sensitive component in an altimeter or barometer that measures absolute pressure of the air. -Sealed, flat capsule made of thin corrugated disks of metal soldered together and evacuated by pumping all of the air out of it.…

Introduction Blood pressure is the pressure of the blood in the circulatory system. In the early 1600’s William Harvey began to learn and talk about the circulatory system. The circulatory system is the system that circulates blood throughout the body and also transports materials like nutrients through the body. In 1733 Stephen Hales was the first to know about the concept of blood pressure. He inserted a pipe into a horse’s artery and connected the pipe to a glass tube. He noticed that blood…

Wrist and upper-arm blood pressure monitors are mainstays of the blood pressure monitor industry, but some people find them a little bit too bulky or intimidating to be of any use. Finger blood pressure monitors provide a welcome and handy (no pun intended) alternative to these more popular models. A lot of people are suspicious of finger blood pressure monitors and believe them to be unreliable and ineffective when it comes to delivering a reliable reading of one’s blood levels. While it is…

experiment, we are testing the affects sodium has on our blood pressure. If increased amounts of sodium are added to plain spaghetti noodles, will that increase blood pressure? If 7 grams of sodium is introduced to plain noodles and consumed, then the person 's systolic and diastolic reading will increase dramatically, when blood pressure is a function of sodium. This is our hypothesis. We predict that when we take the blood pressure of our test subjects after eating the noodles with 7 grams of…

artery walls is consistently elevated over a long period of time and causes a constant blood pressure reading above 140/90 mm Hg. When blood pressure is high over long periods of time it can cause permanent long term effects to the blood vessels. You get this reading by measuring how much blood is pumped out of the heart and the overall resistance of the arteries to the flow of blood. You measure the blood pressure by measuring the diastole, which is the heart relaxing and filling with blood,…

1. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing through the body into the arteries. Hypertension is high blood pressure. This is because there is an overwhelming pressure of blood that flows through the artery wall. 2. There are various things that can affect the resting blood pressure due to the fact blood pressure is constantly changing minute by minute in response to mood, activity, body position, etc. Factors that can change or affect your resting blood pressure reading include caffeine…

Blood pressure is measure of blood flow forcing against the walls of the arteries. Hypertension is a medical condition when the systolic blood pressure measures more than 140mmHg and diastolic measures more than 90mmHg. The World Health Organisation considers hypertension as a serious epidemic. According to the last estimate by WHO, 40% of the adults aged 25 and above had been diagnosed with hypertension. In 1980, 600 million people around the world had Hypertension, by 2008, there were 1…