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01-03-2017 | What's New in Intensive Care
Ten concerns about blood pressure measurement and targets in paediatric sepsis
Authors:
Matko Marlais, Mark D. Lyttle, David Inwald
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 3/2017
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Excerpt
Current paediatric sepsis guidelines suggest that resuscitation is titrated against clinical markers of hypovolaemia and end organ perfusion [
1], including blood pressure (BP), heart rate and capillary refill time (CRT). BP is used both as a defining feature of shock and as a target for therapy. This paper will focus on the measurement of BP, the definition of hypotension and on the target BP for therapy in children with sepsis. …