Arterial Blood Pressure Monitorin

摘要

MEASURING ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE, which has been an integral part of human medicine for many years, can be critical to the outcome of equine patients. During physical examination, the carclio- vascular status of a patient typically is evaluated by checking its oral mucous membranes, heart rate, and pulse. In some patients, it also would be informative to measuu the blood pressure, especially in horses undergoing general anesthesia and in critically ill patients, including critically ill neonatal foals, patients in septic shock, or patients with colic, laminitis, or epistaxis. (See the box below.) Other conditions that may require arterial blood pressure monitoring include acute hemorrhage, colitis, cardiac failure, and anaphylactic reactions.