Abstract
Long before anaesthesia was conceived of, Stephen Hales(1) had cannulated the carotid artery of a conscious horse and noted the elevation and pulsatile variability of the blood pressure. Today, almost 250 years later, it is commonplace to measure arterial pressure directly during anaesthesia, and in patients requiring intensive therapy. For most anaes-thesiologists, the measurement and recording of arterial pressure starts and ends with the derivation of systolic and diastolic values, and occasionally the derivation of mean arterial pressure and heart rate.
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Prys-Roberts, C., Curnow, J.S.H. (1982). Direct Measurement of Arterial Pressure and Derived Variables. In: Prys-Roberts, C., Vickers, M.D. (eds) Cardiovascular Measurement in Anaesthesiology. European Academy of Anaesthesiology, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68690-0_21
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