Name: Yu Lin A.

Chuang Date: 1/26/2021

Section: ZOOLONE, N02A
Individual Activity: Taking Blood Pressure
Guide Questions:
1. What is blood pressure? (2 pts)
_Blood Pressure is simply the force your heart is exerting to circulate blood throughout
the person’s body. It is the force of the blood when the blood the walls of the Artery.
2. What is the importance of taking your blood pressure or the blood pressure of your
family members? What do they mean when they say someone has high or low blood
pressure? (3 pts)
The importance of taking your one’s or others blood pressure is to see if you or your
family is at risk from cardiovascular diseases. This is usually done before doing medical
processes such as injecting a vaccine to determine if the person is at risk of stroke. If a
person has a high blood pressure, this means that the force of blood “hitting” the walls
of the arteries can cause illnesses. Hence, the person’s heart is working too fast. If a
person has a low blood pressure this indicates that the pressure of the blood in the
arteries is weak and the heart is working slower than the normal rate.
3. What do you use to take blood pressure and what are the steps you have to do? (5 pts)
The medical equipment used to take blood pressure is the Sphygmomanometer, there
are two kinds of it (the Digital/Automatic and the Manual one). For the manual one, this
involves a stethoscope so the first step is to tell the patient to bring their arm out and
relax it. Second, wrap the cuff into the person’s upper arm (near the middle) according
to the measurement (if it is a kid smaller wrap or larger if it’s an adult). See if the Velcro
is in the right place (should not be upside down). Third step is to put the stethoscope in
the middle part of the arm (on the bottom part of the cuff). Fourth, is to pump the cuff
until it’s tight and pressure bar should be full. Then after that, listen to the “pumping
sounds” on the stethoscope and time it with the pressure bar on the
sphygmomanometer.
4. BONUS (2pts): If you have a way to take the blood pressure of any family member in
your home, indicate their blood pressure at 5pm today.

Name of family member and relationship to you: _Fely Aguilar , Grandmother_

Blood pressure: __130_____/____60__