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Patient
measurement
history
5.4.1.4
History holds an overview of measurements measurements taken
by the same doctor on the same patient. It shows the trend of the
patient’s results for left and right ABI on a specific date.
A comment can be added to every measurement. It will be stored
and always available together with recoding report.
DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS
5.5 INTERPRETATION OF AN ABI RESULT
When the result “Abnormally weak pulse” is displayed, there is
a high probability of severe Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) or
incompressible arteries (Medial Calcinosis).
DETECTION OF
SEVERE PAD AND
INCOMPRESSIBLE
ARTERIES
5.5.1
NOTE
The majority of the “Abnormally weak pulse” results describe the patients with
an ABPI around or lower than 0,5.
NOTE
In case of Medial Calcinosis, the arteries cannot be compressed due to stiff
arterial walls. The measurement of blood pressure with cuffs is not possible,
and therefore the ABPI cannot be reliable. The patient should be referred for
a Toe Brachial Index measurement.
PULSE
WAVEFORM
5.5.2
The MESI mTABLET ABI uses the PADsense™ pattern recognitional
algorithm to automatically interpret the acquired pulse waveform and
calculate the ABI with the result. However, to help an operator
to better understand a performed ABI measurement, this pulse
waveform is available on the applications results screen.
Combining both the ABI result and pulse waveform represents the
best practice in evaluating the presence and severity of Peripheral
Arterial Disease (PAD).