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I’ve written recently above the new advances that have made our care and lives easier: Stretchers going from two man to one man to now power-operated. Airway adjuncts like bougies, LMAs, and of course capnography. Life Pack 5s to Life Pack 10s to LifePack 12 with 12-leads. EZ-IOs. I discovered another one just the other […]
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Manual Versus machine Blood Pressures
I have one quibble with this article: the cited Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research study is being used here to claim that automated BP (NIBP) is less accurate than a manual BP, but that's not what the study shows. That's not even the study's intent. Its intent is to determine whether a specific type…
2018-12-26 20:34:43
Manual Versus machine Blood Pressures
I have one quibble with this article: the cited Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research study is being used here to claim that automated BP (NIBP) is less accurate than a manual BP, but that's not what the study shows. That's not even the study's intent. Its intent is to determine whether a specific type…
2018-12-26 20:34:43
CityMedic
Manual Versus machine Blood Pressures
Spot on. And I'm usually faster and/or more accurate than my Zoll monitor. BUT: For those of us who work in systems where incentives are lined up toward avoiding liability instead of providing good patient care, an automated NIBP -- no matter how inaccurate -- is the recorded "proof" of that patient's pressure and when…
2018-12-23 22:30:06
Manual Versus machine Blood Pressures
Spot on. And I'm usually faster and/or more accurate than my Zoll monitor. BUT: For those of us who work in systems where incentives are lined up toward avoiding liability instead of providing good patient care, an automated NIBP -- no matter how inaccurate -- is the recorded "proof" of that patient's pressure and when…
2018-12-23 22:30:06
Ambulance Driver
Manual Versus machine Blood Pressures
Electronic NIBP is notoriously innacurate... almost as inaccurate as human ears. For every erroneous NIBP reading I’ve seen, I’ve been given a BP of odd numbers taken off an aneroid sphygmomanometer, with even-numbered hashmarks. Or even worse, the guy who consistently gets a BP that ends in zero: 120/80, 150/90, and so on. One thing…
2018-12-23 13:51:17
Manual Versus machine Blood Pressures
Electronic NIBP is notoriously innacurate... almost as inaccurate as human ears. For every erroneous NIBP reading I’ve seen, I’ve been given a BP of odd numbers taken off an aneroid sphygmomanometer, with even-numbered hashmarks. Or even worse, the guy who consistently gets a BP that ends in zero: 120/80, 150/90, and so on. One thing…
2018-12-23 13:51:17
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Thanks for sharing what "Balance" means in your life. Happy Holidays Peter.
2018-12-18 12:56:13
Balance
Thanks for sharing what "Balance" means in your life. Happy Holidays Peter.
2018-12-18 12:56:13
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