Introduction: Arterial stiffness is an important predictor of cardiovascular risk. Several indices have been  introduced to estimate the arterial stiffness based on the changes in the brachial blood pressure. Since the  substitution  of  the  blood  pressure  changes  in  the  central  arteries  such  as  carotid  with  the  blood  pressure  changes in the brachial results in error in the blood...

Background and Objectives: Suction is a necessary and common method which aids in the release of secretion from the respiratory system for the patients who have undergone mechanical ventilation. One of the most common complications of suction is hypoxemia which causes dysrhythmia and death. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of open and closed-endotracheal suction on cardiov...

background: this study was conducted to assess the validity and reliability of ankle?brachial index (abi) by oscillometric blood pressure (bp) measurement as compared with an automated abi as a gold standard. materials and methods: this study was conducted at golden jubilee medical center, thailand. all the data were collected from 303 patients at risk of peripheral arterial disease (pad) who w...

oxygen is an essential part of the most important metabolic pathways in aerobic organisms. oxygen delivery is merely dependent on blood, rendering blood loss a devastating event. traumatic pre-hospital liver bleeding is a major cause of early trauma deaths in human and animals, with no established therapeutic method yet. increasing intra-abdominal pressure (iap) has been shown to reduce liver b...

arterial blood gas parameters were analyzed in forty-nine healthy persons (31 males, 18 females) to detemine reference values fo these parameters and their relation to the time from last food intake to arterial puncture (t). the mean ± standard deviation of arterial oxygen pressure, arterial carbon dioxide pressure and ph at core body temperature were 84.4±7.0 mmhg (male: 83.0±6.5, female: 86.7...