Review Article Blood Pressure Measurement and Its Regulation

There are three methods of measurement and recording of blood pressure viz. Oscillatory, Palpatory and Auscultatory. In the normal individual the constancy of the internal environment is being a adjusted by the well-organised controlling system. Adjustment of blood pressure, according to the needs of the body, may be carried out by the several complex reflexes whose centres are lying in the cerebral cortex, formation reticularis, hypothalamus, medullary and spinal vasomotor centres. The (A) efferent and (B) afferent pathways constituting the above reflexes are lying within the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems whose activities are modified by the hypothalamus and other centres. Key words: blood pressure, blood pressure measurement, blood pressure regulatio