Measurement of arterial blood pressure during anaesthesia.
Regular measurement and recording of blood pressure, with pulse monitoring and ECG, are the 'minimal monitoring' without which no anaesthetic should take place. This is because blood pressure is an index of some of the most fundamental physiological processes.
Stafford
M A
MA
University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Batchelor
A M
AM
D000758:Anesthesia; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D007022:Hypotension / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000379:methods*