Pregnant? Blood Pressure Taken Incorrectly?
Photo Description: A doctor taking a patient's blood pressure. Camera is looking down from above table. **** My pregnant partner had issues with white coat hypertension that caused us a lot of stress because the OBGYN wanted to induce early based on bad blood pressure data. If you are in this situation, I wanted you to have some research that I conducted. Fyi, you can find things that would be behind an OVID paywall by finding publically accessable documents that reference what you want. My partner's OB is a member of ACOG. After a lot of searching, I found the practice bulletin that describes best practices for taking blood pressure. In my experience, no med tech follows these because no doctor requires it. Of course, Pre-eclampsia is extremely dangerous. However, at least one doctor is not ensuring that they make judgements on good blood pressure data. I hope you can use this to advocate for yourself. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/...