Abstract
Background and AimsElderly patients aged ≥65 years represent a growing population in the perioperative field, particularly orthopedic and vascular surgery. The higher degree of age‐related or comorbid‐dependent vascular alterations renders these patients at risk for hemodynamic complications and likely denote a possible limitation for modern, non‐invasive arterial pressure monitoring devices. The aim was to compare vascular unloading technique‐derived to invasive measurements of systolic (SAP), diastolic (DAP), and mean arterial pressure (MAP) in elderly perioperative patients.MethodsThis prospective observational study included patients aged ≥65 years scheduled for orthopedic and patients ≥50 years with peripheral artery disease Fontaine stage ≥ II scheduled for vascular surgery, respectively. Invasive radial artery and non‐invasive finger‐cuff (Nexfin system) arterial pressures were recorded before and after induction of general anesthesia and during surgery. Correlation, Bland‐Altman, and concordance analyses were performed. Measurements of arterial pressure were also compared during intraoperative hypotension (MAP <70 mm Hg) and hypertension (MAP >105 mm Hg).ResultsSixty patients with orthopedic (N = 25, mean (SD) age 77 (5) years) and vascular surgery (N = 35, age 69 [10] years) were enrolled. Seven hundred data pairs of all patients were analysed and pooled bias and percentage error were: SAP: 14.43 mm Hg, 43.79%; DAP: −2.40 mm Hg, 53.78% and MAP: 1.73 mm Hg, 45.05%. Concordance rates were 84.01% for SAP, 77.87% for DAP, and 86.47% for MAP. Predefined criteria for interchangeability of absolute and trending values could neither be reached in the overall nor in the subgroup analyses orthopedic vs vascular surgery. During hypertension, percentage error was found to be lowest for all pressure values, still not reaching predefined criteria.ConclusionArterial pressure monitoring with the vascular unloading technique did not reach criteria of interchangeability for absolute and trending values. Nevertheless, the putatively beneficial use of noninvasive arterial pressure measurements should be further evaluated in the elderly perioperative patient.
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