Practical procedure Czech Society for Hypertension: Blood Pressure Measurement Part 1: General principles
Abstract
For diagnosis and treatment of arterial hypertension is correct and, if possible, reproducible measurement complete condition. Although it seems at first glance might seem that this is a problem solved long ago, a blood pressure measurement implemented in practice methodically propagated correctly to all with consequences that come with the resulting errors bear.
On the one hand it can be unfounded treatment of patients with white-coat hypertension, on the other insufficient control pressure or unnecessary traumatization of the patient's obsessive taken at home. Our summary is based both on specific recommendations for blood pressure measurement (1-3), both from the current recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of arterial hypertension (4,5).
In many respects, however, primarily reflects the practical experience and opinions authors