#392: Blood Pressure Simplified

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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When assessing your patient, you are going to be looking at myriad factors to determine if s/he is stable or not. One of the most important data points you are looking at is blood pressure. What is blood pressure, how does it play into your patient’s overall picture and what factors cause it to go up, or (more importantly) go down? Hit play on this episode to review key concepts such as cardiac output, TPR, blood pressure regulation, common causes for hypotension, and how low blood pressure affects different body systems. ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references. FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! Med Surg Solution - Are you looking for a more effective way to learn Med Surg? Enroll in Med Surg Solution and get lessons on 57 key topics and out-of-this-world study guides. Crucial Concepts Bootcamp - Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more. Straight A Nursing App - Study on-the-go with the Straight A Nursing app! Review more than 5,000 flashcards covering a wide range of subjects including Fundamentals, Pediatrics, Med Surg, Mental Health, Maternal Newborn, and more! Available for free in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. 20 Secrets of Successful Nursing Students – Learn key strategies that will help you be a successful nursing student with this FREE guide! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.1	Hi there. I'm Nurse Moe, and this is the Straight A Nursing podcast where I teach nursing concepts and share tips to help you thrive in nursing school and beyond that
1:21.9	at the bedside. Today we are going back to basics to review a fundamental concept that is probably the one
1:32.3	I use the most when I'm standing at the bedside of a patient.
1:37.2	And that, my friend, is the concept of all the things that come into play to regulate blood
1:43.2	pressure and what is going to happen with the patient
1:46.3	in regards to different body systems when blood pressure is low. First, let's take a quick
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