Arterial Monitoring in Hypertensive Emergencies: Significance for the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit

Introduction: Blood pressure measurement is important for treating patients. It is known that there is a discrepancy between cuff blood pressure vs arterial blood pressure measurement. However few studies have explored the clinical signi ficance of discrepancies between cuff (CPB) vs arterial blood pressure (ABP). Our study investigated whether differences in CBP and ABP led to change in management for patients with hypertensive emergencies and factors associated with this change.Methods:This prospective observational study included adult patients admitted between January 2019 –May 2021 to a resuscitation unit with hypertensive emergencies. We defined clinical significance of discrepancies as a discrepancy between CBP and ABP that resulted in change of clinical management. We used stepwise multivariable logistic regression to measure associations between clinical fact ors and outcomes.Results:Of 212 patients we analyzed,...
Source: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research