Practicals · Critical Care Medicine · Cardiovascular system
Setting up invasive pressure monitoring and troubleshooting the arterial waveform
- Type
- Procedure
- Curriculum level
- minimum 10 (DrNB log book)
- Also called
- transducer levelling, zeroing, damping
Videos and resources
- VideoHow to Setup an Arterial Line Transducer3:46
- VideoArterial Line Set Up and Maintenance | Mosaic Life Care12:02
- +66 more links
Links point to material published by others; SolvedPGSS does not host it. Check any technique against your department's protocol before you use it on a patient.
Where the curriculum asks for it
“Trouble shooting intra-arterial pressure wave tracing” ( NBEMS DrNB curriculum, page 35)
“Setting up of invasive monitor” ( NBEMS DrNB curriculum, page 15)
“Pressure Transducers” ( NBEMS DrNB curriculum, page 16)
“Resonance and damping, frequency response” ( NMC DM/MCh guidelines, page 9)
“Principles of pressure transducers” ( NMC DM/MCh guidelines, page 9)