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Blood Pressure Management

Home readings you can trust, a target agreed with your clinician, medicine routines and reviews, and the salt and lifestyle changes that bring the numbers down.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Blood Pressure Management, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own health. It is not medical advice and does not replace a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other qualified professional. Check any change to treatment, medicine or diet with them first, and get urgent care if you feel unwell.

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🩺 Physical Health

Blood Pressure Management

Monitoring and lowering high blood pressure through home readings, medication reviews and lifestyle changes, for anyone diagnosed with or at risk of hypertension.

  1. Choosing a validated home blood pressure monitor
  2. Cuff size and measuring arm check
  3. Seven-day home blood pressure baseline
  4. Clinic versus home readings comparison
  5. Agreeing your blood pressure target
  6. Blood pressure reading log
  7. Urgent warning signs card
  8. First four weeks on blood pressure medicine
  9. Monthly reading review
  10. Home monitoring week each quarter
  11. Annual hypertension review
  12. Daily medicine timing routine
  13. Annual blood tests for blood pressure medicines
  14. Side effect diary during dose changes
  15. Monitor upkeep and accuracy check
  16. Weekly lower-salt meal plan
  17. Stress and readings weekly check-in
  18. Weekly movement target agreed with your clinician
  19. Taking an accurate home reading
  20. Understanding your diagnosis and stage
  21. Reading food labels for salt
  22. How your blood pressure medicines work
  23. Working with averages, not single readings
  24. Slow breathing practice
  25. Lower-salt cooking that still tastes good
  26. Checking your pulse for an irregular rhythm
  27. Salt audit of the weekly shop
  28. Lifestyle-first or medicine-now decision
  29. Adding or changing a blood pressure medicine
  30. Switching a medicine that causes side effects
  31. Over-the-counter medicines that raise blood pressure
  32. Caffeine and readings experiment
  33. Potassium-rich food swaps
  34. Lower-salt workday lunches
  35. Twenty-four-hour ambulatory monitor day
  36. Blood pressure check before planned surgery
  37. Travelling with blood pressure medicines
  38. Sick day and heatwave plan for blood pressure medicines
  39. Follow-up after a high reading at a pharmacy
  40. High blood pressure diagnosed under forty
  41. Dizziness on standing in later life
  42. Managing a parent's blood pressure readings
  43. Blood pressure in pregnancy and after birth
  44. Reading times that fit a shift pattern
  45. Family blood pressure check for relatives
  46. Investigating resistant high blood pressure
  47. Home readings report for a specialist
  48. Two-year home readings trend review
  49. Written self-management plan with your clinician
  50. Supporting a partner newly diagnosed

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Choosing a validated home blood pressure monitor

Many monitors on sale have never been independently checked for accuracy, and a monitor that reads five points out will mislead every decision made from it. Choosing one from a published validated list, with an upper-arm cuff in your size, is the cheapest way to make home readings worth acting on.

First tasks

  • Find a published list of validated home blood pressure monitors
  • Shortlist three upper-arm models in your price range
  • Check which cuff sizes each model offers
  • Buy or borrow the validated monitor you chose

Cuff size and measuring arm check

A cuff that is too small for your arm can make readings look several points higher than they are, and the two arms can differ. Measuring your arm and checking both sides once tells you which cuff to use and which arm to measure from now on.

First tasks

  • Measure around the middle of your upper arm with a tape
  • Match the measurement to the cuff sizes your monitor offers
  • Take readings from both arms one after the other
  • Write your cuff size and measuring arm at the top of the log

Seven-day home blood pressure baseline

Single readings bounce around with stress, caffeine and the time of day, so clinicians usually ask for a week of home readings before deciding anything. Taking two readings morning and evening for seven days gives an average that reflects your real blood pressure, not the moment of measuring.

First tasks

  • Ask your practice how they want a week of home readings recorded
  • Take two morning and two evening readings for seven days
  • Work out the average of the readings the practice asks for
  • Send the average and the full sheet to your practice

Make it yours.

Install Blood Pressure Management, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.