Blood pressure monitors

RE: Blood pressure monitors

Emily Rainbow — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:49:26 GMT

We have the HDO one from Vet direct I think which is brilliant.

RE: Blood pressure monitors

Bob Russell — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:57:51 GMT

Once people get used to the doppler it takes a few seconds to take a reading. Finding the right position for the sensor becomes almost second nature.

We struggled for some time then the penny dropped!

RE: Blood pressure monitors

Julie Innes — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:42:35 GMT

Yeah, I kind of messed up with that. We could never get it work intraop, so we've never really used it . Wanted to get a BP on a cat today and couldn't get it to work. Just wondered if we could use the human one for general readings...

My dad is going to look at the monitor . He can fix anything!

RE: Blood pressure monitors

Martin Atkinson — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:16:09 GMT

[quote user="Julie Innes"]Question: is there a reason you couldn't use a human BP monitor with the smaller cuffs?[/quote]Doppler is more accurate in most of our species. However, for continuous automatic monitoring I would say its still worth getting the BP module on your monitor fixed rather than fiddling around with a separate system intra-operatively when there's already enough to do.

RE: Blood pressure monitors

Bob Russell — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:27:15 GMT

We had the same opinion about doppler until we had the chap out from Thames medical to do some training. Since then people are happy to have a go and of course always get a result!

Now considered worth its weight in gold!