Current blood pressure thresholds may miss critically injured children

Blood pressure thresholds commonly used to identify dangerously unstable vital signs in children may not signal trouble soon enough after a traumatic injury, according to a national study of more than 230,000 pediatric trauma patients. The findings suggest clinicians may need to recognize and respond to signs of circulatory instability at higher blood pressure levels than current pediatric reference values indicate.

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