Pengaruh Ukuran Manset Terhadap Hasil Pengukuran Tekanan Darah

Abstract

Correct blood pressure measurements are essential to diagnosing and treating high blood pressure. Several factors influence blood pressure measurements and the factor which is often neglected by the medical professionals is the cuff size inappropriate to the arm size of the patient.  Public assumes adult cuff in ordinary sphygmomanometer according to measure blood pressure in all people. This research evaluated the effect of adult cuff size and 8-9 cuff size for children on blood pressure measurement of 30 children 8-10 years old. The research was an analytic survey. Data measured in the form of systolic pressure and diastolic pressure in set of mmHg.  The result of the experiment, the average of systole blood pressure using adult cuff size was 89.9 mmHg and using 8-9 cm cuff was 104.1 mmHg. While the average of diastole using adult cuff size  was 58 mmHg and using 8-9 cm cuff was 68 mmHg. Analysis data shows that measurement of systole and diastole blood pressure using adult  cuff will  gives lower blood pressure result than 8-9 cm cuff (p<0.0001). Conclusion is cuff size influences the result of blood pressure measurement, measurement of blood pressure using larger cuff will gives lower blood pressure result