Blood Pressure
By Daniela Svensson - Student Veterinary Nurse
Blood pressure monitoring from the comfort of your home allows less stress for your animal.
Why do blood pressure monitoring at home?
Performing a blood pressure monitoring procedure at home gives us veterinary professionals a more accurate reading from your pets feeling more comfortable at home.
Performing a blood pressure monitoring procedure at your home allows elderly pets to skip the journey for their fragile bones.
This service allows veterinary professionals to regularly check blood pressure for pets that are on medications and need regular checks.
Underlying diseases can be discovered through blood pressure monitoring and allow your veterinarian to get to the route of the problem.
A more accurate reading is taken at home but sometimes trembling or shifting position can give us a less accurate reading.
How is a blood pressure reading taken?
A pressure cuff is placed on your pet fore leg or tail to get an accurate reading and is attached to the monitor.
What is Hypertension?
High blood pressure.
Possible undiagnosed underlying disease.
If high blood pressure is not treated it can cause further problems for our pets leading to complications.
What is Hypotension?
Low blood pressure.
Low blood pressure can cause oxygen supply and blood supply to decrease.
Hypotension can be recognised through lethargy, fainting, depression, and confusion.
Diagnosing critical underlying issues enables veterinary professionals to help make a plan and move forward with your pet’s treatment in the correct way.
Understanding blood pressure
Blood pressure is defined as, the measurement of pressure of blood flow on the vessel wall.
Unit of measurement- millimetres of mercury also written as mmHg.
Systolic arterial pressure, also known as SAP, is the measurement of pressure during cardiac systole (contraction)
Diastolic arterial pressure, also known as DAP, is the measurement of pressure during cardiac diastole(relaxation).
Mean arterial pressure, also known as MAP, is an average calculated from the SAP and DAP.
Controlling blood pressure with special diets, weight control, and medications are aimed at lowering blood pressure.
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