Blood pressure checks ‘more accurate at home’
Saturday 27th August 2011, 2:56PM BST.
Blood pressure checks should be made overa 24-hour period, says consultant cardiologist Dr Andrew Mitchell.
BLOOD pressure checks carried out when people are at home and out and about should be used more in the Island if funding becomes available , says consultant cardiologist Dr Andrew Mitchell.
This week, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, NICE, has said that it is preferable for a blood pressure check to be carried out over a 24-hour period in the patient’s home and while they are carrying out their normal lives than in a GP’s surgery.
It is believed that use of this system could prevent blood pressure readings being inaccurately high because patients are nervous in the surgery.
The system recommended – ambulatory blood pressure monitoring – involves the wearing of an inflated arm cuff and a box on a belt for 24 hours.
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We should copy the UK model said Dr Andrew Mitchell after watching Breakfast News yesterday.
Yawn – more follow the leader.
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Who the hell is going to fund this service, we can’t even afford to have health carers visitng those that need it, as it is!
Now my pressure has just gone up over this!
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