Medical students can cause blood pressure to rise, report says

Medical students and measuring blood pressure: Results from the American Medical Association Blood Pressure Check Challenge

Blood pressure (BP) measurement is the most common procedure performed in clinical practice. Accurate BP measurement is critical if patient care is to be delivered with the highest quality, as stressed in published guidelines. Physician training in BP measurement is often limited to a brief demonstration during medical school without retraining in residency, fellowship, or clinical practice to ...

The role of stress on the rise of blood pressure

Background: The virtual rise of blood pressure resulted from stress, that is observed in subjects that are tested in medical centers, can be oftenly corrected by holter. This phenomenon causes such persons not to response to the common anti blood pressure treatments (2). Materials and methods: This descriptive study was conducted 2006-2007 at the heart clinic of Shohadaye–Ashayer hospital in Kh...

Medical Students Fall Short on Blood Pressure Check Challenge.

Athird of US adults have hypertension,amajor risk factor forheartdisease, which is the leading cause of death in thecountry.Additionally,more than a quarter of the population has higher than normal blood pressure (BP), or prehypertension. With stats like that, one might assumecheckingBPwouldbeat the topof the listofmedical studentproficiencies.Yeta recent report suggests otherwise. Only 1 out o...

Occupational exposure to blood in medical students.

OBJECTIVE To determine the extent of occupational exposure to blood in medical students, details of the circumstances surrounding the incidents and the subsequent experiences of the student. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Tygerberg Hospital, the Health Sciences Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch during a 15-week period from 4 February to 19 May 2002. SUBJECTS One hundred ...

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