https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/f/clinical-discussions/12967/use-of-human-blood-pressure-machines Hi All! Sorry, me again, another quick question. I was talking to a nurse the other day about BP monitoring and how the dopplar we use can be quite a pain on concious animals and even more a pain on unconcious ones! She said they used a human BPen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/110890?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:22:39 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:4afd4d69-17b0-4d1b-8f7a-8cf921f1a1bdLeigh Hinsley RVN NCert(BDev) MBVNA<p>Thanks Sal, I&#39;m sure someone else said they were unreliable too so I wanted to check - although they use them here religiously but then again without double checking how would they know? I&#39;ll just have to practice more with our CAT doppler - I used to be quite good but haven&#39;t done them for ages so think I&#39;ve lost my magic touch :( I just wish there was an easier method for concious stressy cats who won&#39;t keep still long enough to hear anything!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/110826?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:43:27 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:5ead8271-d214-4518-89bb-bf9f5edf91d1Sal the 1st<p>I tried this myself a few years ago and from my point of view they are in no way accurate. I used one of these and compared it to the readings I got from a properly calibrated memoprint (which was the closest veterinary equivalent&nbsp;I could lay my hands on at the time). I found wide variations in the readings. These machines are not even that accurate on humans.&nbsp;Most accurate readings I have found come from either a Parks Doppler or the CAT doppler and yes I know they can be a bit fiddly but once you get the hang of them through repeated use they really arent that difficult. Have had decent results from a human manual sphyg with a paediatric cuff but you do need a good set of ears for this</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>