Before posting this I tried searching google and allnurses forums but I wasn't able to find answers to my questions so I hope you guys can help! (What happened to the search function anyway, or did I go blind?)
2 questions:
1) I recently had a pt with BP of 124/48. She was fine, no concerns. However, I haven't seen a dbp that low and asked a fellow nurse when dpb would be considered too low and something to contact the doc about and she said she didn't know and to judge it by how the pt was doing.
I didn't pursue the question because we were pretty busy, the pt was fine, and I wanted to do some research later on.
I know that we should be considered if the sbp is below 80 or sometimes 90 depending on the pt - is there some kind of parameter for the dbp?
2) What was the lowest dpb you have seen and how was the pt doing?
