Radial arterial catheters are foundational to hemodynamic monitoring and blood sampling across anesthesia, intensive care, and emergency medicine. Yet preventable complications—mechanical instability after wrist flexion, catheter kinking due to steep insertion angles,...
Arterial cannulation for continuous blood pressure monitoring is not a technique free of complications, most of the time minor and not a major problem for the patient, but in some cases it can have serious consequences. Furthermore, in children, given the smaller...
Catheterisation of an arterial line for invasive blood pressure monitoring is a common technique, both in Critical Care Units and in the intra- and postoperative period of patients undergoing cardiac or other major surgery requiring strict blood pressure control or...
In 30.7% of cases, the arterial blood pressure waveform is resonant. If this happens, the reading will be incorrect and, if we base our decisions on it, they will not be the most accurate. WHAT WILL YOU FIND IN THIS ARTICLE? What is resonance? How to avoid resonance?...