Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Finger-cuff and oscillometric versus intra-arterial blood pressure measurements: a prospective method comparison study in patients having noncardiac surgery
Authors' conclusion
In patients having low- to moderate-risk noncardiac surgery, the agreement between finger-cuff and intra-arterial blood pressure measurements was comparable with the agreement between oscillometric and intra-arterial blood pressure measurements.
Study context
- Population
- Patients ≥18 yr having elective low- to moderate-risk noncardiac surgery with GA, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany2,577 measurement triplets
- Participants
- 76 patients
- Exposure
- Finger-cuff and oscillometric vs intra-arterial BP measurements
- Outcome
- Agreement in mean BP (Bland-Altman analysis)
Methodological detailssingle-centre, Bland-Altman analysis
- Single-centre
- Bland-Altman analysis
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Mean BP agreement vs intra-arterial
Each group vs intra-arterialMean difference, mm Hg (95% CI)
Finger-cuffSD of differences 6.9; interval = 95% limits of agreement
−2.8(−16.3 to 10.7)
OscillometricSD of differences 8.9; interval = 95% limits of agreement
2.1(−15.3 to 19.5)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Finger-cuff and oscillometric versus intra-arterial blood pressure measurements: a prospective method comparison study in patients having noncardiac surgery. Br J Anaesth. Published 20 July 2026. doi:10.
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