Blood pressure monitoring
-
Blood pressure monitoring · Oct 2004
Comparative StudyAccuracy of automated auscultatory blood pressure measurement during supine exercise and treadmill stress electrocardiogram-testing.
Monitoring of brachial blood pressure during exercise-electrocardiogram (ECG) testing is mandatory and changes in blood pressure (BP) can provide critical management evidence. Patient movement, mechanical vibration, artifactual sounds and observer variability make standard manual techniques problematic. This was an investigator-initiated study to assess an automated auscultatory technique of BP assessment [Tango exercise blood pressure monitor (SunTech Medical Instruments, NC, USA)] to adequately measure BP during stress-ECG testing. ⋯ Automated BP assessment during exercise-ECG testing is feasible with the use of appropriate automatic devices likely to be at least as accurate as manual BP registration. The Tango device is tolerant to exercise and provides reliable automatic BP assessment with absolute differences within an acceptable clinical range.