Open AccessIs it reliable to measure the forearm blood pressure in children?
Author(s) -
Amar Taksande,
Aishwarya Jadhav,
Jyoti Nair
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of family and community medicine/maǧalaẗ ṭib al-usraẗ wa al-muǧtamaʼ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-340X
pISSN - 1319-1683
DOI - 10.4103/2230-8229.155376
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , cuff , sphygmomanometer , forearm , pearson product moment correlation coefficient , diastole , coefficient of variation , correlation coefficient , cardiology , surgery , statistics , mathematics
When the upper arm (UA) is inaccessible or a standard-sized blood pressure (BP) cuff is unavailable, some healthcare workers use the forearm (FA) to measure BP with a mercury sphygmomanometer.