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So today we have Dr. Razan Jeptson, who is a lecturer in internal medicine here at the RVC,

and we're going to talk about all things to do with blood pressure.

So thank you very much, Rosanne, for joining.

Thanks, Dom. It's great to be here.

She's forced to say that.

So, so Rosan, I suppose like fundamentally, let's start with,

I suppose I think looking at an emergency kind of way that blood pressure is one of those

fundamental things that we should all measure really in general. Let's be honest. So heart

rate temperature, respiratory rate, probably blood pressure should be up there as something we should do. I would agree. I would say that more and more today

we think about blood pressure as being part of our baseline clinical assessment. And you're right,

that's true for the emergency patients walking through the door. But perhaps from my perspective,

it's dealing with the chronic medicine type patients that older more geriatric

patients that we see. But you're right. When we measure blood pressure, I guess the sort of

two extremes that we're interested in, those patients where we're worried about hypotension

and all the complications that that can come with. And I guess my particular area of interest

has been those patients that

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