Abstract
The aim of the study was to evaluate whether invasive blood pressure responses to orthostatic stress can be replaced by non-invasive continuous finger blood pressure responses. DESIGN - Intrabrachial and Finapres blood pressures were simultaneously measured during passive head up tilt and during active standing from the supine or sitting position in healthy volunteers. Subjects (n = 11) were healthy males aged 22-40 years, mean age 30 years. Beat to beat values of systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial pressures were calculated for both methods of measurement and the differences compared during a 30 s control period before, and during the first 120 s after, the change of posture. In the control period the difference between finger pressure and intra-arterial pressure was +2 (SD11) mm Hg for systolic, -4(8) mm Hg for mean, and -3(7) mm Hg for diastolic pressure. Compared to these control differences, the average finger minus intra-arterial pressure differences for mean and diastolic pressures during the three orthostatic manoeuvres were always within the range -6 to +6 mm Hg. The average systolic deviations were larger, ranging from -10 to +11 mm Hg. Despite these differences the characteristic changes in intra-arterial pressure during the initial phase (first 30 s after change of posture), as well as during the early steady state phase (1-2 min after the change of posture) were well reflected by finger pressure measurements in all subjects. For the assessment of the continuous blood pressure responses to orthostatic stress similar information can be obtained with non-invasive Finapres blood pressure recordings as with invasive recordings.
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