Published Dec 23, 2012
cmuress
2 Posts
What does it mean when I take a blood pressure & Korotkoff sounds do not disappear to get the diastolic pressure? Is it possible to get a diastolic reading at 0 mmHg? or am I hearing pulse sounds
Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN
20,908 Posts
There are pateints that you will hear them all the way down....it is at the point the "change" tone and begin to fade.
Compassion_x
449 Posts
I wish I could remember the video I watched on B/P a while ago... It was a practice video where you listened to the sounds and then write down what you heard the b/p as.
Anyways, there was one on the video you could hear all the way down to 0. The correct way to write that one was something like.... 110/65/0 mmHg.