🧵 Sphygmomanometer revelation
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:56:10 UTC No. 16416097
How are they only figuring this out just now? The sphygmomanometer has been in use since the 1800s.
How was it misused for over a century and a quarter without anyone noticing? Are doctors and medical science really that lackadaisical and unobservant?
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 19:01:24 UTC No. 16416103
Idk but I always noticed doctors in my country at least couldn't care less about your positioning when they wrap the lancet around my arm. They do not even require to take the shirt off they just take the reading through the clothes...
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 19:12:21 UTC No. 16416124
>>16416097
how is this news? i remember when i first got an at-home blood pressure cuff 20 years ago, this kind of info was readily available. a more interesting recent development is that your pressure while lying down is more predictive of cardiac events
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Oct 2024 19:48:17 UTC No. 16416183
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.
ctrl+f arm
Maybe nobody wanted to do a full clinical trial until now because it was something so obvious, idk.