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Blood pressure in the neonate
Author(s) -
Michael Weindling A,
Bentham Jamie
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2005.tb01879.x
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , arterial catheter , catheter , continuous noninvasive arterial pressure , anesthesia , intensive care medicine , surgery
The paper by Dannevig et al. in this issue of Acta Pædiatrica carefully compares the agreement between blood pressure measurements made by three non‐invasive blood pressure monitors with those made from an indwelling intra‐arterial catheter. Conclusion: Non‐invasive blood pressure monitoring is not particularly accurate for making measurements in neonates and generally overestimates the blood pressure as observed by others. Clinicians thus should be wary about using non‐invasive blood pressure techniques as substitutes for monitoring by means of an intra‐arterial catheter and transducer.