Blood p Taking Thru Shirt Sleeve ?

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Robert11 - 20 Sep 2009 12:24 GMT

Hello,

Re taking of one's blood p with the automatically inflatable cuff:

I have heard that it doesn't matter at all if you take it thru a regular
shirt sleeve
(e.g. the typical oxford shirt cloth; not exactly a "light" cloth).

Hard to believe that you'd get the same readings, but... ?

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

Thanks,
B.

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Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD - 20 Sep 2009 12:34 GMT

> Hello,
>
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>
> Hard to believe that you'd get the same readings, but... ?

Depends on whether the sleeve is tight on the arm.

> Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> B.

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Don Kirkman - 20 Sep 2009 19:47 GMT

It seems to me I heard somewhere that Robert11 wrote in article
<h953ct$b7v$1@news.eternal-september.org>:

>Re taking of one's blood p with the automatically inflatable cuff:

>I have heard that it doesn't matter at all if you take it thru a regular
>shirt sleeve
>(e.g. the typical oxford shirt cloth; not exactly a "light" cloth).

>Hard to believe that you'd get the same readings, but... ?

>Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

FWIW, the doctors and nurses in the practice I've used for a long time
have been taking bp through sleeves for quite a while now. It took me
by surprise the first few times they did it that way, but I stopped
feeling I needed to wear shirts that I could take off easily or that
had sleeves I could roll up. :-)

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