A review of cardiovascular medicine: the blood pressure

This study was intended to refresh the medical student (or pratitioner) about the pathophysiologic and the technical aspects of the blood pressure. The primary intended users are third year medical students - those who have finished a course in physiology, anatomy, pathology, and physical diagnosis. Practicing physician (especially the general practitioners) may also benefit as well from this review, as part of their continuing medical education. The students are extended to apply the relationship of cardiovascular function and structure to BP-generation, regulation and maintenance, correlate cardiovascular physics and physiology with the indirect method of BP generated from a partly occluded artery (Korotkov sound)