What This Course Covers

You take a blood pressure on nearly every patient. The question is whether you’re getting everything out of it. Systolic looks fine, diastolic looks fine — and the patient is quietly underperfusing anyway. Mean Arterial Pressure is the number that catches it, and most providers were never taught to use it.

Module 1: Beyond Systolic — What systolic, diastolic, and pulse pressure each actually tell you, and the patterns that should make you look twice.

Module 2: MAP — The Perfusion Number — What Mean Arterial Pressure really measures, how to estimate it in your head in seconds, and the threshold that separates “perfusing” from “organs in trouble.”

Module 3: When MAP Matters More — Sepsis, trauma, and the deceptive pressures that look acceptable on the monitor while the patient deteriorates. Real scenarios, real numbers.

Module 4: Getting NIBP Right — Cuff sizing, placement, patient factors, and the measurement errors that quietly corrupt your treatment decisions.

Built for BC Primary Care Paramedics. Practical scenarios throughout — no physiology lecture without a field application attached.