You are measuring your patient’s blood pressure with the aus…

You are measuring your patient’s blood pressure with the auscultatory method.  You’ve placed a blood pressure cuff around your patient’s left arm while listening to the brachial artery pulse with a steescope. You next inflate the blood pressure cuff on your patient’s arm and confirmed you can no longer hear any sounds through your stethoscope. You next slowly deflate the cuff and listen for the moment you can hear the patients heart beat again. You mark this moment you can first hear the heartbeat as . You continue to deflate the cuff until the sound of the heartbeat disappears. You mark this disappearance of sound as .