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Honestly I'm not sure what a single point-in-time reading even accomplishes. I've been hooked up to a continuous blood pressure monitor a few times and it's alw

by Spivak 2y ago

Honestly I'm not sure what a single point-in-time reading even accomplishes. I've been hooked up to a continuous blood pressure monitor a few times and it's always fun to see how low I can get it. It seems pretty useless without seeing where it fluctuates over time not in a doctor's office.

iwaztomack 2y ago
How do these work? You can't stay compressed all the time? Is it intravenal?
- Spivak 2y ago
  The ones I've been hooked up to just compress every few minutes so not terribly fancy.
- aidenn0 2y ago
  Once, when hospitalized, I had an arterial BP monitor that was continuous. The last systolic number I remember seeing before passing out from sepsis was in the 70s.
laz 2y ago
Aktiia makes a continuous optical blood pressure monitor that is available in the EU. It's like wearing a fitbit, but for bp. You calibrate it with a pressure cuff once a month. I'm pretty sure they're going through fda approval in the USA now.