Blood pressure monitoring
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Blood pressure monitoring · Aug 2021
Aortic arch calcification: a novel parameter for prediction of masked hypertension.
Masked hypertension is directly related to increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality but remains underdiagnosed in clinical practice. The aim of the study was to search the role of aortic arch calcification (AAC) in the diagnosis of masked hypertension. ⋯ AAC can be used as a reliable diagnostic tool to exclude and predict masked hypertension during office examination.
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Blood pressure monitoring · Apr 2021
The relationship between glycemic variability and blood pressure variability in normoglycemic normotensive individuals.
Glycemic fluctuations around a mean glucose level, referred as glycemic variability and blood pressure variability (BPV) are considered as independent risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, all-cause mortality, and cardiovascular disease-mortality. With this background in mind, we aimed to investigate the association between glycemic variability and BPV and their association in normoglycemic and normotensive individuals. ⋯ We report correlation between glycemic variability and BPV variables in normoglycemic and normotensive healthy individuals.
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Blood pressure monitoring · Feb 2020
Comparative StudyThe measurement of blood pressure by the linear method compared to the deflation methods differently modifies the pulse oximeter alarm frequency.
Noninvasive blood-pressure measurement device and pulse oximeter are important for patient monitoring. When these are placed on the same side, cuff inflation sometimes causes measurement failure by pulse oximeter. ⋯ Heart rate may influence alarm occurrence during blood-pressure measurement using the step deflation method. Using the linear inflation method, the risks of alarm occurrence and measurement failure are low, even when the pulse oximeter and blood-pressure measurement cuffs are installed on the same side, suggesting that this method is suitable for clinical use.
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Blood pressure monitoring · Dec 2018
Orthostatic blood pressure measurements are often overlooked during the initial evaluation of syncope in the emergency department.
The renewed 2018 syncope guidelines published by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) reiterate that the initial evaluation of syncope should include history taking, physical examination, an electrocardiogram, and orthostatic blood pressure measurements (OBPM). However, the importance of evaluating for orthostatic hypotension (OH) often remains underappreciated in clinical practice. In this study, we examine the initial evaluation of syncope on an ED. ⋯ In the other 48%, the OH diagnosis was likely made on the basis of history taking and exclusion of other syncope causes. OBPM are infrequently used during the initial evaluation of syncope irrespective of its consistent inclusion in ESC syncope guidelines. The discordance between clinical practice and the ESC syncope guidelines calls for increased awareness of the role of OBPM in the initial evaluation of syncope by either stricter guideline adherence or reappraisal of clinical practice.
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Blood pressure monitoring · Apr 2018
Accuracy of oscillometric blood pressure measurement in atrial fibrillation.
The primary aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of automated oscillometry (AO) in outpatients with atrial fibrillation (AF). The secondary aim was to explore whether AO accuracy is influenced by beat-to-beat blood pressure (BP) variability or heart frequency (HF). ⋯ Overall, AO accuracy in AF is limited; in individual patients, AO inaccuracy may be considerable. AO accuracy is especially reduced in patients showing large beat-to-beat BP variability or high HF.