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My sister’s boyfriend was feeling sick the other night and he went to the emergency room and he said that when the nurse took his blood pressure it read 280/220. Is this humanly possible to have a bottom blood pressure that high and live to tell about it? He was admitted and treated but released the next day. I think he must’ve been mistaken about his bottom BP reading. Wouldn’t a bottom pressure that high all but kill you?
yes, it is possible. i hope they re-checked it again with another cuff. i dont think they would have sent him home with it being that high. sometimes we have an elevated blood pressure in response to pain, or simply from seeing someone in a whit coat coming at us! i will say that most people dont live to tell about it. a good question to ask is why did they admit him?for his blood pressure? if so, it must have been right.
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I know if you are pregnant (female) the worry about preclampsia when the bottom number is 90….
There must have been something wrong with the machine.
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my sis is preg and her bottom number was 89
The questioning of this surrounds whether a manual blood pressure reading was taken or an automated one as it is noted that for accurate blood pressure monitoring for pregnant patients it is imperative that the practitioner use a manual sphygmomanometer so as to take the blood pressure reading accurately. I must say that the reading is innacurate as the Diastolic blood pressure would mean very high Blood pressure which would lead to immedaite stroke and death.
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yes, it is possible. i hope they re-checked it again with another cuff. i dont think they would have sent him home with it being that high. sometimes we have an elevated blood pressure in response to pain, or simply from seeing someone in a whit coat coming at us! i will say that most people dont live to tell about it. a good question to ask is why did they admit him?for his blood pressure? if so, it must have been right.
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