Perioperative Automated Noninvasive Blood Pressure- (NIBP-) Related Peripheral Nerve Injuries: An Anesthetist’s Dilemma—A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 2

Case reports of blood pressure-induced nerve injuries [4, 6, 17–20].

Author	Nerve injury	Surgery	Duration of surgery	Risk factors
Swei et al. [20]	Radial nerve	Emergency appendectomy	120 minutes	Low body mass index (BMI) of 17.75, repeated inflation of the pressure cuff takes place in response to erroneous signals from outside interference
Bickler et al. [18]	Radial nerve	Lumbar epidural for normal labor	60 minutes	Actively moving patient during labor (moving artifact) leads to repeated prolonged measurement
Lin et al. [4]	Radial nerve	Laparotomy for perforated peptic ulcer	150 minutes	BMI 18.5, applying the pressure cuff at a lower level close to the cubital fossa
Van Ooijen et al. [6]	Ulnar nerve	Elective Le Fort iosteotomy.	240 minutes	BMI 20.6, prolonged surgery
Van Ooijen et al. [6]	Median nerve	Laparoscopic low anterior resection of the rectosigmoid colon	160 minutes	Hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), prolonged and repeated blood pressure measurement
Kim et al. [5]	Radial nerves	Nail removal and nail lengthening for fibular hemimelia	180 minutes	Prolonged surgery
Mehta [19]	Radial nerve	Ambulatory 24-hour blood pressure monitoring	24 h	Hypertension, compression injury from 24-hour automated cycled blood pressure monitoring
Yamada et al. [22]	Unspecified nerve injury with the crush syndrome (rhabdomyolysis)	Total gastrectomy, splenectomy, and cholecystectomy for gastric cancer	340 minutes	Failure of deflation of the automatically cycled blood pressure, prolonged surgery