• Yaron Hellman, Adnan S Malik, Kathleen A Lane, Changyu Shen, I-Wen Wang, Thomas C Wozniak, Zubair A Hashmi, Sarah D Munson, Jeanette Pickrell, Marco A Caccamo, Irmina Gradus-Pizlo, and Azam Hadi.
• IU School of Medicine, Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indianapolis IN, USA.
• Artif Organs. 2017 May 1; 41 (5): 424-430.

AbstractCurrently, blood pressure (BP) measurement is obtained noninvasively in patients with continuous flow left ventricular assist device (LVAD) by placing a Doppler probe over the brachial or radial artery with inflation and deflation of a manual BP cuff. We hypothesized that replacing the Doppler probe with a finger-based pulse oximeter can yield BP measurements similar to the Doppler derived mean arterial pressure (MAP). We conducted a prospective study consisting of patients with contemporary continuous flow LVADs. In a small pilot phase I inpatient study, we compared direct arterial line measurements with an automated blood pressure (ABP) cuff, Doppler and pulse oximeter derived MAP. Our main phase II study included LVAD outpatients with a comparison between Doppler, ABP, and pulse oximeter derived MAP. A total of five phase I and 36 phase II patients were recruited during February-June 2014. In phase I, the average MAP measured by pulse oximeter was closer to arterial line MAP rather than Doppler (P = 0.06) or ABP (P < 0.01). In phase II, pulse oximeter MAP (96.6 mm Hg) was significantly closer to Doppler MAP (96.5 mm Hg) when compared to ABP (82.1 mm Hg) (P = 0.0001). Pulse oximeter derived blood pressure measurement may be as reliable as Doppler in patients with continuous flow LVADs.© 2016 International Center for Artificial Organs and Transplantation and Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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