Automated alerts and intraoperative noninvasive blood pressure monitoring gaps: a retrospective before-and-after study
Kohei Ikeda, Tsunehisa Tsubokawa · 2026
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Kohei Ikeda and Tsunehisa Tsubokawa evaluate in 2026 an on-screen alert meant to stop blood pressure checks from lapsing during surgery. Guidelines call for readings at least every five minutes, yet gaps happen when teams are busy. Their hospital's anesthesia system began flagging any chart silent for five minutes in February 2021, and the authors compared over thirty-four thousand cases before and after.
Cases with a gap of ten minutes or longer fell from about one in fifteen before the alert to fewer than one in twenty afterward. Adjusted models confirmed lower odds of long gaps, slightly shorter worst intervals, and fewer large pressure swings across the longest gap. The authors conclude that a simple vendor-built reminder measurably tightened monitoring discipline.
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| CREATOR | Kohei Ikeda, Tsunehisa Tsubokawa |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46492 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |