Blood pressure monitoring
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Blood pressure monitoring · Feb 2014
Clinical TrialValidation of a conical cuff on the forearm for estimating radial artery blood pressure.
There has been a growing need for and interest in measuring noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP) in obese patients. In many situations, available rectangular upper arm blood pressure cuffs do not fit properly, closing in a crisscross manner or overlapping the elbow. To address this issue, GE Healthcare has designed a conically shaped cuff for use on the forearm to estimate radial arterial blood pressure. This study evaluated using this forearm cuff with an oscillometric NIBP algorithm compared with an invasive radial arterial blood pressure reference. ⋯ The statistical results show that oscillometric NIBP measurements taken with the conically shaped cuff placed on the forearm give an accurate estimation of radial arterial blood pressure.