A person’s blood pressure can increase temporarily under emotional situations but persistently high or elevated blood pressure (hypertension) is a serious medical problem. Hypertension significantly increases the risk of heart attack, stroke/paralysis, kidney failure, blindness, and premature death. As a person can be having high blood pressure (BP) without any symptoms, regular blood pressure measurement is the key to detecting and treating this silent killer.
In between two cases in the operation theater (OT) there was a delay and the OT was empty without both the patient and the anesthetists. Dr. Kas Nova (fictional name) decided to make use of this opportunity to get his blood pressure (BP) measured by the automatic anesthesia’s multi-para machine. He asked his resident to switch on the machine and help him in taking his BP recording with the machine.
Being unfamiliar with the machine as it was operated only by the anesthetist, they were fumbling with the switches and settings when one of the anesthetists entered the OT. Noticing them struggling, the helpful lady volunteered to help them.
Standing close to Dr. Kas Nova, in the congested space between him and the anesthesia machine, the lovely anesthetist expertly warped the BP machine around his arm, set the parameters on the machine, and started the process of the BP recording. Within a minute the monitor displayed Dr. Kas Nova’s blood pressure reading on the screen.
It was perfectly normal. In fact, it was towards the lower side for someone of Dr. Kas Nova’s age as the blood pressure tends to increase with increasing age.
The anesthetist went outside the OT to continue her work.
After she had left, Dr. Kas Nova looked at the BP recording on the machine and sighed, ‘I really must be getting old.' The resident standing nearby overheard him and asked with surprise, ‘Why sir, why are you saying such a thing? Your BP reading is perfectly normal!’
‘That is the problem,’ said Dr. Kas Nova, ‘Such a beautiful lady was standing near me and yet my blood pressure did not shoot up.’
Different persons may have different ways of looking at the same thing. What may be a good thing for someone may be perceived as a bad thing by someone else.
— ND
(Based on allegedly true incident.)
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