How would blood pressure measured surrounded by the thigh compare near the blood pressure on your wrist?
Answers:
BP is BP no matter where on earth it comes from although I have never seen or hear of it being taken in the thigh - wrist, arm and even ankle but thigh? Maybe I swot something new again today! Source(s): Cancer victim/survivor
Blood pressure when measured in the thigh via the popliteal pulse is usually slightly better than in the arm via the brachial pulse.
Just in satchel you are uncertain, the blood pressure in the arm is measured at the pulse inside the elbow, not the wrist.
Hope this help.
Love Mel.X Source(s): Coronary care nurse.
The internal diastolic pressure within an artery at any point of the arterial tree (irrespective of whether it's arm, leg, or even neck!) depends on two things: (a) How much blood is flowing down that artery and (b) the resistance to flow presented by adjectives the blood vessels downstream of the point of measurement.
Multiply one by the other (a x b) and you obtain the true internal diastolic pressure.
Quite wrongly, doctors are under the impression that multiplying 'flow' by 'resistance' give you 'Mean Arterial Pressure', but this is a myth. There is no such thing as "Mean Arterial Pressure" -it doesn't exist.. .... except in the minds of the medical profession.
But the pressure you determine with a monitor isn't the real (true) internal pressure as expected, so the relative sizes and elasticities of the thigh and arm greatly influence the readings you'll get, and within practice the readings you get will change enormously Source(s): Cardiovascular Physicist.
Related Questions: