I believe that nurses/techs are checking pulse by holding patients’ wrists. BP requires a cuff of some kind to be inflated, then released. In the past this was done by med person inflating cuff with a small hand pump and then using stethoscope on pt’s inner elbow and round gauge to measure diastolic pressure, then releasing air from cuff to measure systolic. (Sorry, I may be mixing up the two readings.) Machines now do it all, once cuff is in place.
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