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pretty much every patient in the intensive care unit - that’s kind of what the “intensive” is referring to. If nothing else, you either take the blood pressure
by ghufran_syed 4y ago
pretty much every patient in the intensive care unit - that’s kind of what the “intensive” is referring to.
If nothing else, you either take the blood pressure the normal way with a pressure cuff, which is going to wake you up. Or you put an intra arterial catheter, which reads continuously without bothering the patient, but has a small risk of damage to the vessel, infection etc
- gowings97 4y agoBased on my knowledge of US based urban (downtown) / suburban metro hospitals - vast majority of beds / patients aren't in ICU/CCU beds. I would say only 30% are in a critical state under observation - ICU/CCU/post-op/etc.