At 07:09 07/06/2017, Ball, William wrote:
>Thanks John, I look forward to seeing what you can dig up.
I'll see what I can find, but it may take a little time.
>I work in Interventional Cardiology (or Cardiac Catheter Labs) - our
>patients aren't ambulatory in the sense that they are in the dept on
>a bed but many of the outpatient angiograms show no coronary disease
>so our case mix isn't always as extreme as an HDU or ITU.
Fair enough. If the patient is lying down 'at rest' (and quite
probably sedated, and maybe pre-medicated with atropine etc.), one
would imagine that BP would (as you suggested) be pretty stable,
except when any 'interventions' were being undertaken - injection of
contrast into coronary arteries (or LV, or aortic root) or balloon
angioplasty (stents came 'after my time'!) can obviously result in
(sometimes dramatic) changes in BP.
Kind Regards,
John
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