Prevalence and implications of a difference in systolic blood pressure between one arm and the other in vascular surgical patients

Anaesthesia

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1247-1252

  Durrand, J W ^a   Batterham, A M ^b   O'Neill, B R ^a   Danjoux, G R ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARM; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITOR; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; EDITORIAL; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; ARM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84887817201     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.12452     Document Type: Editorial

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