Dynamic monitoring of neonatal blood pressure using the oscillometric method

: 160 newborns have been studied, some of them with APGAR index greater than 7 at a minute after birth and some others with a lower index, by continuous pressure monitoring for 60 minutes, with noninvasive automatic oscillometric technique. This continuous monitoring has pointed out systolic, mean and diastolic pressure values very useful for the knowledge of the pressure trend during the early days of life, so as for the suggestion of a considerable oscillation of blood pressure in the different times of day. Pressure changes, linked to the kind of delivery and/or to the APGAR index, appeared unsignificant.