Hemodynamic Monitoring Flashcards
What is the formula for blood pressure?
Pressure = Flow x Resistance
Anytime there is a change in blood pressure, its due to ____…?
- Either a change in flow or a change in resistance
What is flow?
- Cardiac output (HR x Stroke Volume)
What affects stroke volume?
- Preload
- Afterload
- Contractility
What are the goals of the Cardiovascular System?
- Transport and delivery of oxygen and nutrients for metabolic use
- Removal of waste products
Define Hemodynamics.
- Movement of blood through the closed circulatory system
What influences hemodynamics?
- Blood pressure
- Blood flow
- Characteristics of blood (viscosity)
MAP = ?
MAP = CO (HR x SV) x SVR
What is systolic pressure?
- Max pressure
- Pressure exerted when heart beats
- Reflects volume and speed of ejection, compliance of the aorta
What is diastolic pressure?
- Minimum pressure
- Pressure exerted between heart beats
- Reflects vascular resistance and competence of the aortic valve
What is the best indicator of tissue perfusion?
Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP)
What is MAP?
- Average driving pressure of blood during the cardiac cycle
- MAP often used in titration of pressures
- Induced hypotension
- Calculation of CPP
How is CPP calculated?
CPP = MAP - ICP
*If your CVP is higher than your ICP, your supposed to use CVP.
What is Pulse Pressure?
- Systolic Pressure - Diastolic Pressure
- Reflects difference in volume ejected from LV into arterial vessels and volume that is already there.
How is auscultation of NIBP obtained?
- When an artery is partially constricted, blood flow becomes turbulent, causing the artery to vibrate and produce sounds
- Turbulent flow will occur when the cuff pressure is greater than the diastolic pressure and less than the systolic pressure
What are Korotkoff sounds?
- The “tapping” sounds associated with the turbulent flow
Oscillometric method and Korotkoff sounds.
- Even when the Korotkoff sounds are hardly audible, the oscillometric method can pick up the vibrations of the artery due to turbulent flow
How does the Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor work?
- Measures the oscillations in the machine umbilical cable
- Measures MAP (point of maximum oscillation amplitude), then calculates systolic and diastolic from formulas that examine the rate of change of the pressure pulsations
With the automatic blood pressure monitor, what is the most unreliable measurement?
- Diastolic pressure
How is the Oscillomteric systolic blood pressure recorded?
- It is recorded at the point where cuff pressure oscillations begin to increase
Mean pressure corresponds to?
- the point of maximal oscillations
The oscillomteric diastolic pressure is measured…?
- at the point where the oscillations become attenuated
What are the limitations of Oscillometric Measurement?
- Motion Artifact
- Bruising at cuff site
- Nerve damage
- Arterial or intravenous occlusion during inflation
- If proximal to pulse oximeter, damping of pulse ox waveform and reading
- If SBP below 80, NIBP often over estimated MAP
- Must have correct cuff size
- Dysrhythmias make values difficult to interpret or increase cycle time
How do you determine correct blood pressure cuff size?
- If the bladder is at least 80% the circumference of the arm the reading should be accurate
What are some trouble shooting techniques for NIBP?
- Most common problem is air leaks at cuff, tubing or connection to unit
- Have patient keep arm still
- Disconnect unit and reconnect it to reset
Invasive arterial blood pressure monitoring is…?
- the most accurate way to monitor beat to beat blood pressure and easy access to blood gas monitoring