Blood pressure monitoring in aeromedical care

Thirty-Minute Office Blood Pressure Monitoring in Primary Care.

PURPOSE Automated office blood pressure monitoring during 30 minutes (OBP30) may reduce overtreatment of patients with white-coat hypertension in primary health care. OBP30 results approximate those of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, but OBP30 is much more convenient. In this study, we compared OBP30 with routine office blood pressure (OBP) readings for different indications in primary ca...

24-Hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in primary care.

BACKGROUND Both the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of Hypertension in Adults and the British Hypertension Society have made recommendations for the use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in select patient populations. This demonstration project explores the feasibility of a 24-hour ABPM service in assisting physicians with decisions rega...

Home blood pressure monitoring.

Noninvasive blood pressure monitoring.

For more 20 years, noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitors have been widely used in operating rooms and critical care units to closely monitor blood pressure in patients of all ages. Despite the widespread use of automated blood pressure monitors, clinicians continue to deliberate over the accuracy and reliability of automated NIBP devices compared to other methods of blood pressure determin...

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

End-organ damage associated with hypertension is more closely related to ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) than clinic or casual blood pressure measurements. ABP measurements give better prediction of clinical outcome than clinic or casual blood pressure measurements. The technique of ABP monitoring (ABPM) is specialised; validated monitors and appropriate quality control measures should be used....