You are monitoring blood pressure during mechanical ventilation of a patient with pneumonia. A temporary increase in blood pressure occurs when the patient coughs. This temporary spike in blood pressure represents what type of variability?

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The signal itself can exhibit a random variability related to the inherent imprecision of the signal or due to normal physiologic variability in the patient. Blood pressure, for example, changes within a certain range for many reasons.

You Are Monitoring Blood Pressure During Mechanical Ventilation of a Patient