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ArticleActa anaesthesiologica Scandinavica2026

Diagnostic Accuracy of Arm Conicity to Detect Inaccurate Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Measurement in Obese Patients.

Victoria Eley, Anita Pelecanos, George Hopkins, Andre van Zundert, Michael Stowasser, Sean Gannon, Christine Woods, Adrian Chin

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Article in Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors.

Victoria EleyDepartment of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Anita PelecanosStatistics Unit, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
George HopkinsMedical School, Faculty of Medicine, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Andre van ZundertDepartment of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Michael StowasserMedical School, Faculty of Medicine, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Sean GannonStatistics Unit, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Christine WoodsDepartment of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Adrian ChinDepartment of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4502-7763

Funding

Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists 20.003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) measurement can be challenging in patients with obesity. We aimed to determine if arm conicity, mid arm circumference or body mass index (BMI) could be used to predict pre-operative and intra-operative NIBP measurement error. Eligible patients had elective surgery and BMI ≥ 35 kg/m

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ArmBlood Pressure DeterminationObesityAdultAgedBlood PressureBody Mass IndexFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedReproducibility of ResultsROC Curvearm sizeblood pressurecuffdiagnostic accuracymeasurementobesity

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PMID41981918
PMCPMC13080233

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