Measuring Techniques for Health Care

Table of Contents

1. Maintaining and Monitoring Health
2. Introduction to the Section
3. Assessment of pulse
4. Measuring Blood Pressure
   1. Equipment Use
   2. Blood pressure Assessment
   3. Measuring the blood pressure using an electronic sphygmomanometer
   4. Recording blood pressure using a mercury column sphygmomanometer
   5. Factors affecting the blood pressure recording
5. Acknowledgements

This is an extract form materials been created from a COLEG pack using Course Genie as part of the project based training undertaken by the RSC Scotland S & W, part of the staff development initiative EMERGE. The full pack is on the COLEG website