ArticleJournal of clinical anesthesia2023
Incidence, severity and detection of blood pressure and heart rate perturbations in postoperative ward patients after noncardiac surgery.
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- Continuous vs Intermittent Postoperative Vital Sign Monitoring: A Cluster Randomized Crossover Trial.JAMA network open · 2026Trial
- Artificial Intelligence-Driven Norepinephrine Control Using Adaptive Cardiac Digital Twin for Critical Care Patients.Methods of information in medicine · 2026Article
- Intraoperative blood pressure management in noncardiac surgery: a narrative review based on current evidence.Intensive care medicine · 2026Review
- Improving definitions and innovations for identification and prevention of postoperative opioid-induced respiratory depression (OIRD): Proceedings of the International Consensus Conference.Journal of clinical anesthesia · 2026Article
- Comparison of consistency between wireless and conventional wired monitoring systems in gastrointestinal endoscopy.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Emerging Technology and the Future of Perioperative Care: Perspectives and Recommendations From the 2023 Stoelting Conference of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation.Anesthesia and analgesia · 2025Review
- Portable wireless monitoring of vital signs in hospital wards.BJA education · 2025Review
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- Impact on Patient Outcomes of Continuous Vital Sign Monitoring on Medical Wards: Propensity-Matched Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Enhanced monitoring for postoperative hospital wards - Evidence to implementation.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2024Article
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objectiveWe sought to determine changes in continuous mean and systolic blood pressure and heart rate in a cohort of non-cardiac surgical patients recovering on the postoperative ward. Furthermore, we estimated the proportion of vital signs changes that would remain undetected with intermittent vital signs checks.
designRetrospective cohort.
settingPost-operative general ward. PATIENTS: 14,623 adults recovering from non-cardiac surgical procedures. INTERVENTIONS & MEASUREMENTS: Using a wireless, noninvasive monitor, we recorded postoperative blood pressure and heart rate at 15-s intervals and encouraged nursing intervention as clinically indicated. MAIN
results7% of our cohort of 14,623 patients spent >15 sustained minutes with a MAP <65 mmHg, and 23% had MAP <75 mmHg for 15 sustained minutes. Hypertension was more common, with 67% of patients spending at least 60 sustained minutes with MAP >110 mmHg. Systolic pressures <90 mmHg were present for 15 sustained minutes in about a fifth of all patients, and 40% of patients had pressures >160 mmHg sustained for 30 min. 40% of patients were tachycardic with heart rates >100 beats/min for at least continuous 15 min and 15% of patients were bradycardic at a threshold of <50 beats/min for 5 sustained minutes. Conventional vital sign assessments at 4-h intervals would have missed 54% of mean pressure episodes <65 mmHg sustained >15 min, 20% of episodes of mean pressures >130 mmHg sustained >30 min, 36% of episodes of heart rate > 120 beats/min sustained <10 min, and 68% of episodes of heart rate sustained <40 beats per minute for >3 min.
conclusionsSubstantial hemodynamic disturbances persisted despite implementing continuous portable ward monitoring coupled with nursing alarms and interventions. A significant proportion of these changes would have gone undetected using traditional intermittent monitoring. Better understanding of effective responses to alarms and appropriate interventions on hospital wards remains necessary.
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