How accurate are the petMAP BP readings?
A. petMAP Manual states “.. has been optimized for accuracy by comparison to intra-arterial BP measurements in dogs and cats..”. BP is displayed within +/- 2 mmHg. This does not mean however that every reading displayed by the petMAP will be within those limits of display accuracy. BP changes more than that each time the animal breathes, but the optimizations built into petMAP for species and cuff site have been developed to make the petMAP correlate with simultaneously measured intra-arterial BP better than previous generations of BP devices. No device will ever read the PB perfectly since the BP is always changing with each heart beat, particularly if the animal is not totally relaxed.
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