Is it possible if anyone doesn’t have Blood Pressure?
My mother is 45 years old. She diagnosed with Lung Cancer (None Small Cell Cancer) a month before. She is now under Chemotherapy treatment. When we took her to the Doctor yesterday, the Nurse tried to check her Blood Pressure but it was so strange that her Blood Pressure could not appear in Blood Pressure Monitor. My elder brother told to the Doctor, he then checked her pulse it was OK but he didn’t describe that why can’t her blood pressure appear on the monitor.
So can anyone explain it that how is it possible? Please give me some information.
Thanks,
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The reason is that the monitor doesn’t actually read ‘pressure’, . well, not the pressure in your arteries, only the pressure in the rubber cuff .
It actually listens for special sounds, -which it recognizes and when these appear and disappear then the cuff pressures are the two BP "readings" you get.
But a heart in trouble often makes different sounds – ones that are too difficult for the machine’s electronics to recognize and pick up.
So it registers an "error"… and ‘Nursey’ says it’s no blood pressure..
That’s it. But if she was using a proper stethoscope and sphygmomanometer, the sounds would be there.
Look up "Korotkoff sounds" on Wikipedia
operator error. if she didn’t have blood pressure, she would be dead.
Magick Kitty is right- it’s a false reading.
If you don’t trust the machine- the first step is to feel for a pulse. If it’s strong, then the BP’s ok.
Other indications of low BP are pale/cold skin, loss of conciousness (’cos the brain’s not getting enough blood) & low (less then 1ml/hr/kg of body weight), because the kidneys are not perfused.
The very fact that she’s awake and can move and talk (& her heart beats!) means that she has a reasonable blood pressure.
It seems odd that they didn’t try another machine, or even go with a manual spygmanometer.
She’s definitely got a blood pressure, otherwise she would not be alive. Either her blood pressure was really low, or there was something on her arm (like a sweatshirt) that kept the machine from reading. Why didn’t they get a manual blood pressure? It’s not uncommon for the machines to not be able to pick up a reading. There are tons of other reasons. That is why they should do a manual.
I had low blood pressure before…and so maybe the monitor didn’t read hers because it’s so low…the doctors can give her medication for that and also maybe she should drink more water to try to build it up…maybe add something in her diet that retains water like sodium? But I am no professional…so the doctors will be able to know. SHe’s alive-thank God–so surely her heart is pumping…yes…but maybe very slowly.