RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Mean arterial blood pressure and neonatal cerebral lesions.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 1068
OP 1069
DO 10.1136/adc.62.10.1068
VO 62
IS 10
A1 V M Miall-Allen
A1 L S de Vries
A1 A G Whitelaw
YR 1987
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/62/10/1068.abstract
AB Computerised continuous measurement of mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and serial cranial ultrasonography in 33 infants of less than 31 weeks' gestation showed that a MAP of less than 30 mm Hg for over an hour was significantly associated with severe haemorrhage, ischaemic cerebral lesions, or death within 48 hours. No severe lesions developed with a MAP greater than or equal to mm Hg.