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Arterial Blood Pressure

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Hemodynamic Monitoring

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Abstract

The measurement of blood pressure (BP) is a key component of hemodynamic monitoring in various fields of medicine, including intensive care medicine, emergency medicine, and anesthesiology. Thus, it is crucial to understand the different technologies available for BP monitoring. This includes understanding the underlying measurement principles of invasive and noninvasive techniques and knowing their advantages and limitations in different clinical settings. In this chapter, we give a brief overview of the history of technologies for BP measurement, and we describe the available technologies for BP monitoring used in intensive care medicine with regard to their measurement principles, advantages, limitations, and clinical applicability.

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BS collaborates with Pulsion Medical Systems SE (Feldkirchen, Germany) as a member of the medical advisory board and received honoraria for giving lectures and refunds of travel expenses from Pulsion Medical Systems SE. BS received research support from Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, CA, USA). BS received institutional research grants, unrestricted research grants, and refunds of travel expenses from Tensys Medical Inc. (San Diego, CA, USA). BS received honoraria for giving lectures and refunds of travel expenses from CNSystems Medizintechnik AG (Graz, Austria).

TWLS received honoraria from Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, CA, USA) and Masimo Inc. (Irvine, CA, USA) for consulting and lecturing.

JLT is a member of the medical advisory board of Pulsion Medical systems and received honoraria from Edwards Lifesciences and Masimo Inc. for consulting.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Center of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

    Bernd Saugel

  2. Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Thomas W. L. Scheeren

  3. Service de Réanimation Médicale Hôpital de Bicêtre, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris-Sud, AP-HP, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

    Jean-Louis Teboul

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Saugel, B., Scheeren, T.W.L., Teboul, JL. (2019). Arterial Blood Pressure. In: Pinsky, M.R., Teboul, JL., Vincent, JL. (eds) Hemodynamic Monitoring. Lessons from the ICU. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69269-2_21

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