dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Judith A. | eng |
dc.date.issued | 1971 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 1971 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | "Observation of post operative nursing care in the Thoracic Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a state medical center revealed that the staff, both nurses and physicians, questioned the reliability of the direct arterial and venous blood pressure measurements. Nurses frequently used more than one method in an effort to obtain the same physiological data. An example was the measuring of arterial blood pressure suing both the monitor and the sphygmomanometer. This then necessitated subjecting the critically ill patient to an extra procedure and added discomfort in order to record the same physiological parameter. The staff also preferred to use the water manometer for measuring central venous pressure, rather than the monitor, when it was available to them because they doubted the accuracy of the monitor readings...A study of post operative open-heart patients in the Thoracic ICU of a state medical center was then initiated with the following specific aims: (1) to evaluate the monitoring equipment in the ICU in terms of its precision and consistency, (2) to evaluate the comparative response of the monitor versus the sphygmomanometer in the measurement of arterial blood pressure, and the monitor versus the water manometer in the measurement of central venous pressure, (3) to determine whether or not actual alterations of the physiological parameters of heart rate, arterial blood pressure and central venous pressure occur with position change and, if so, are they of clinical significance, and finally, (4) to make suggestions regarding the measurement of these parameters by nursing personnel."-Introduction | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/72701 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/72701 | eng |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | eng |
dc.source | Digitized from microfilm copy, 2018. Eqpt: ScanPro 3000. Quality is known to be poor. Completed as part of a project to quickly digitize theses and dissertations as a way to provide some access to content. | eng |
dc.title | Physiological monitoring - an experimental evaluation | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | eng |
thesis.degree.name | M.S. | eng |