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08-07-2022 | Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring | Special Issue Insight
Invasive arterial pressure monitoring: much more than mean arterial pressure!
Authors:
Glenn Hernandez, Antonio Messina, Eduardo Kattan
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 10/2022
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Excerpt
Invasive arterial pressure monitoring is a standard practice in critically ill patients [
1] since it allows accurate and beat to beat assessment of mean arterial pressure (MAP), and also delivers valuable information about cardiac function, heart–lung interactions, the arterial system and valvular diseases [
2]. Although several guidelines recommend a MAP target during initial hermodynamic resuscitation [
3], focusing only on MAP is an oversimplification, since patients with similar values may have considerable differences in underlying pathophysiological conditions [
4]. Therefore, all the components derived from arterial pressure monitoring should be considered for diagnostic or therapeutic decisions when facing an acute circulatory dysfunction, as will be addressed in this article. …