Blood pressure monitoring

RE: Blood pressure monitoring

Karen Eggleton — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:13:23 GMT

PS do you think you need to account for white coat effect and do multiple readings with HDO over several hours? We are housecall so it would be really helpful to us if we could sit outside for 10 minutes and leave owner and cat alone and get accurate readings.

RE: Blood pressure monitoring

Karen Eggleton — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:10:35 GMT

I'm liking the look of HDO. And you can rent them so worth a go.

RE: Blood pressure monitoring

Martin McDowell — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:35:23 GMT

I would agree that HDO or Doppler would be best but I have seen vets and nurses swear by either. I personally like that you can do a BP measurement with a HDO with very little hands on. Can leave the cat with the owner in a consult room while it goes through the cycle and repeats tests so you can quickly get multiple readings.

I was however working at a clinic that used to have a HDO but went back to Doppler - I think the nurses weren't happy with it as it wasn't as accurate.

RE: Blood pressure monitoring

Karen Eggleton — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:44:53 GMT

Thank you! That's really helpful.

RE: Blood pressure monitoring

Emily Rainbow — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:52:18 GMT

We have the HDO from Vet direct and really like it!

RE: Blood pressure monitoring

Karen Eggleton — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 09:37:02 GMT

That's really helpful Rob. Thank you!

RE: Blood pressure monitoring

Rob Loxley — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 08:35:42 GMT

Worth looking at what the ISFM statemtent says http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1098612X17693500

Essentially direct BP best but impractical, doppler shown to correlate well with direct, older oscillometric units less accurate in conscious cats than doppler, HD-oscillometric units perform better. So either doppler or HDO