Abstract
Objective
To perform further evaluation of the oscillometric device for neonatal arterial blood pressure (ABP) measurement, using a catheter-manometer system (CMS) for accurate intraarterial measurement. We aimed to describe the influence of the radial artery wave shape on oscillometric ABP determination, as pressure, wave-shape influences the relationships between systolic arterial pressure (SAP),diastolic arterial pressure (DAP) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) in the wave. These relationships are part of the algorithms contributing to the final ABP determination in the oscillometric device.
Design
Intra-patient comparison of two blood pressure measurement systems.
Setting
Neonatal intensive care unit.
Patients
In 51 critically ill newborn infants, ABP was determined oscillometrically in the brachial artery and, simultaneously, invasively in the radial artery using a high-fidelity CMS. Clinical data of the infants were: gestational age: 29 (25–41) weeks; brithweight: 1200 (500–3675) g, postnatal age: 6 (2–46) h.
Methods
Statistical analysis was performed with the paired Student'st-test. Multiple regression analysis was used to determine the influence of birthweight and height of the blood pressure on the results.
Measurements and main results
In 51 infants, 255 paired values of SAP, DAP and MAP were recorded. In all recordings we determined the relationship between SAP, DAP and MAP, using the equation.
MAP=α%(SAP-DAP)+DAP. For SAP, DAP, MAP and α, we computed mean differences (bias) and the limits of agreement (precision). Biases for SAP, DAP, MAP and α were significantly different from zero (P<0.001) and the limits of agreement for SAP, DAP and MAP were wide: 18.8 mmHg, 17.2 mmHg and 15.2 mmHg respectively The relationship between invasive and noninvasive values is only partly (7–19%) influenced by the height of the blood pressure; low values of SAP, DAP and MAP tend to give overestimated oscillometric values. In the relationship between SAP, DAP and MAP, α was found to be 47% invasively (as generally found in the radial artery in newborns) and 34% noninvasively (as generally found in the brachial/radial artery in adults).
Conclusions
Inaccuracy of the oscillometric device may be partly explained by the incorporation of an inappropriately fixed algorithm for final ABP determination in newborns. Care should be taken when interpreting the oscillometrically derived values in critically ill newborn infants.
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Abbreviations
- ABP :
-
Arterial blood pressure
- SAP :
-
Systolic arterial pressure
- MAP:
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Mean arterial pressure
- DAP :
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Diastolic arterial pressure
- PP :
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Pulse pressure
- MAP%:
-
Level of MAP in the wave in relation to SAP and DAP
- MAP%:
-
(MAP-DAP)/(SAP-DAP)×100%
- CMS :
-
Catheter-manometer system
- IRDS :
-
Idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome
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Gevers, M., van Genderingen, H.R., Lafeber, H.N. et al. Accuracy of oscillometric blood pressure measurement in critically ill neonates with reference to the arterial pressure wave shape. Intensive Care Med 22, 242–248 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01712244
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