Blood pressure is a measure of cardiac output and systolic vascular resistance. A decrease in blood pressure can occur in a response to a drop in cardiac output, such as serious haemorrhage, a poorly...
Blood pressure, or more accurately intravascular pressure, is the pressure that blood physically exerts on a vessel wall. This pressure is important because the difference in intravascular pressure at...
Blood pressure is the force exerted on the vessel wall which is measured in millimetres of mercury (mmHg). Blood pressure is affected by two factors; cardiac output, or the amount of blood ejected...
There are different ways to measure BP in cats, and most nurses will be restricted to what is available in practice. Only one relatively recent study has compared oscillometric and Doppler methods in...
Pre-surgical patient preparation includes the gathering and organisation of all monitoring equipment, heat sources, emergency drugs and other supplies prior to induction of anaesthesia. Vascular...