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CLINICAL TRIAL
COMPARATIVE STUDY
JOURNAL ARTICLE
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.
Comparative accuracy of three automated techniques in the noninvasive estimation of central blood pressure in men.
American Journal of Cardiology 1998 April 16
Automated devices have regularly replaced manual sphygmomanometry for the determination of blood pressure not only in homes and clinics, but also in emergency and critical care settings. Few studies exist that correctly assess the accuracy of these devices, and even fewer that specifically compare commercially available units that rely on different physiologic events for measurement. Six hundred pressure measurements were obtained from 120 subjects using 1 of 3 randomly selected blood pressure monitors. In addition, central arterial pressure measurements were obtained simultaneously and directly from the ascending aorta of each subject. Overall, these devices tended to overestimate diastolic (+2.5 mm Hg, p < 0.0001) and mean (+3.8 mm Hg, p < 0.0001) pressures, but not systolic (+0.7 mm Hg, p = NS) pressure. Compared with the other 2 devices, device I, relying on oscillometric detection, demonstrated a significantly smaller mean absolute error for diastolic pressure (4.9 +/- 3.0 vs 7.0 +/- 4.8 and 6.2 +/- 5.3 mm Hg, p < 0.0001) and mean pressure (4.0 +/- 3.2 vs 7.8 +/- 5.9 and 8.6 +/- 7.5 mm Hg, p < 0.0001), and a trend toward smaller error with systolic pressure (6.8 +/- 6.5 vs 7.3 +/- 6.8 and 8.0 +/-5.6 mm Hg, p = 0.19). Clinically significant (+/-10 mm Hg) errors were common with each device (24.8% overall), but serious (+/-20 mm Hg) errors were unusual (3.2%) and did not occur at all with device I during diastolic and mean pressure measurement. All of the devices tested could be expected to perform satisfactorily in most clinical settings provided that an average error of 4.0 to 8.6 mm Hg is tolerable. This level of accuracy typically extended throughout the range of pressures anticipated in most noncritical clinical situations. As implemented in the devices tested, noninvasive measurement by oscillometry with stepped deflation is more accurate than automated auscultation.
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