The introduction of blood pressure monitoring into anaesthesia

Conduction anaesthesia, blood pressure and haemorrhage.

Forty-five patients received lumbar epidural block for major vaginal surgery. Twentyfive of them had, in addition,', light general anaesthesia (halothane, oxygen and spontaneous respiration). Measurements of blood loss and mean (integral) operative blood pressure were made. The group receiving halothane had a significantly lower mean integral operative blood pressure dian the group receiving lu...

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....

Ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring.

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is becoming widely accepted as a clinically useful tool for assessing cardiovascular risk in hypertensive patients, although it is not generally recognized for reimbursement in the United States. There are now six major prospective studies, all of which have shown that ABPM gives a better prediction of risk than conventional clinic measurement. A coro...