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Accuracy and reliability of noninvasive continuous finger blood pressure measurement in critically ill patients.
Critical Care Medicine 1996 October
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the accuracy and reliability of noninvasive continuous finger blood pressure measurement in critically ill patients.
DESIGN: Prospective data collection.
SETTING: Emergency department in a 2,000-bed hospital.
PATIENTS: Thirty-nine patients admitted to the emergency department requiring invasive arterial blood pressure monitoring were enrolled to the study protocol.
INTERVENTIONS: Continuous noninvasive blood pressure measurement was performed on the middle phalanx of the second and third finger, using a test instrument which provides continuous arterial waveform display with the use of a finger cuff. Invasive mean arterial blood pressure measurement was done by cannulation of the radial artery and direct transduction of the systemic arterial pressure waveform.
MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Three thousand one hundred eighteen pairs of simultaneous finger cuff and intra-arterial blood pressure measurements were collected in 1-min intervals from 39 patients over a total of 51.8 hrs. The overall discrepancy between both measurements was 0.10 mm Hg. The standard deviation of the differences was +/- 5.02 mm Hg. The mean bias in patients treated with catecholamines was 0.01 mm Hg and was not different from the bias observed in patients without catecholamines (mean bias: 0.23 mm Hg; p > .22). Whereas 95% of all comparisons between finger cuff and intra-arterial measurement had a discrepancy < or = +/- 10 mm Hg, 4.7% had a discrepancy between +/- 10.1 to 15 mm Hg and 0.3% exhibited a discrepancy > +/- 15 mm Hg. In 29 (74%) patients, the duration of errors > 10 mm Hg was < or = 1 min. In seven (18%) patients, the duration of errors > 10 mm Hg was between 2 to 3 mins and in three (8%) patients, the errors lasted for > 3 mins.
CONCLUSIONS: Our data provide a guide to the accuracy and reliability of noninvasive finger blood pressure measurements in critically ill patients. Although most test instrument measurements were reliable, in 8% of all patients large discrepancies (> 10 mm Hg) between both measurements with a duration of > 3 mins were noted. Concerning the considerable risk for arterial cannulation, our preliminary data demonstrate that the test instrument (PORTAPRES, TNO Biomedical Instrumentation Research Unit; The Netherlands) is an advance in noninvasive monitoring of critically ill patients and may be useful in most emergency clinical settings.
DESIGN: Prospective data collection.
SETTING: Emergency department in a 2,000-bed hospital.
PATIENTS: Thirty-nine patients admitted to the emergency department requiring invasive arterial blood pressure monitoring were enrolled to the study protocol.
INTERVENTIONS: Continuous noninvasive blood pressure measurement was performed on the middle phalanx of the second and third finger, using a test instrument which provides continuous arterial waveform display with the use of a finger cuff. Invasive mean arterial blood pressure measurement was done by cannulation of the radial artery and direct transduction of the systemic arterial pressure waveform.
MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Three thousand one hundred eighteen pairs of simultaneous finger cuff and intra-arterial blood pressure measurements were collected in 1-min intervals from 39 patients over a total of 51.8 hrs. The overall discrepancy between both measurements was 0.10 mm Hg. The standard deviation of the differences was +/- 5.02 mm Hg. The mean bias in patients treated with catecholamines was 0.01 mm Hg and was not different from the bias observed in patients without catecholamines (mean bias: 0.23 mm Hg; p > .22). Whereas 95% of all comparisons between finger cuff and intra-arterial measurement had a discrepancy < or = +/- 10 mm Hg, 4.7% had a discrepancy between +/- 10.1 to 15 mm Hg and 0.3% exhibited a discrepancy > +/- 15 mm Hg. In 29 (74%) patients, the duration of errors > 10 mm Hg was < or = 1 min. In seven (18%) patients, the duration of errors > 10 mm Hg was between 2 to 3 mins and in three (8%) patients, the errors lasted for > 3 mins.
CONCLUSIONS: Our data provide a guide to the accuracy and reliability of noninvasive finger blood pressure measurements in critically ill patients. Although most test instrument measurements were reliable, in 8% of all patients large discrepancies (> 10 mm Hg) between both measurements with a duration of > 3 mins were noted. Concerning the considerable risk for arterial cannulation, our preliminary data demonstrate that the test instrument (PORTAPRES, TNO Biomedical Instrumentation Research Unit; The Netherlands) is an advance in noninvasive monitoring of critically ill patients and may be useful in most emergency clinical settings.
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