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Anaesthesia Clinicians Estimate Blood Pressure by Feeling the Radial Pulse: A Randomised, Controlled Trial

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  • Clarke BR

    (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, SEIT, Murdoch University, Western Australia)

  • Simes DC

    (Division of Critical Care, Fiona Stanley Hospital and Saint John of God Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia)

  • Mouchel B

    (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, SEIT, Murdoch University, Western Australia)

Abstract

The trial assessed the accuracy of anaesthesia clinicians in estimating an anaesthetised patient’s systolic blood pressure (SBP) by feeling the radial pulse. To credit their accuracy to luck, skill or circumstance, the volunteer medical participants were sequentially randomized to one of four groups: one group given no help (control), the second allowed to feel the pulse, the third given pre- and peri-operative clinical information, the fourth given both. We set out to collect 60 estimates for each group (240 estimates). The accuracy of their estimations was assessed to clinical and statistical significance.

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  • Clarke BR & Simes DC & Mouchel B, 2018. "Anaesthesia Clinicians Estimate Blood Pressure by Feeling the Radial Pulse: A Randomised, Controlled Trial," Biostatistics and Biometrics Open Access Journal, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 5(1), pages 31-38, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:jbboaj:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:31-38
    DOI: 10.19080/BBOAJ.2018.05.555655
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