ABSTRACT

The purpose of our research is to objectively determine if the global hemodynamic maneuver   produces changes in the blood pressure and in the heart rate on subjects that present ‘essential arterial hypertension’.

For that purpose, we formed a focus group of 50 people, both sexes, of ages between 30 to 70 years. All of them had been diagnosed essential arterial hypertension and at the time of the study they were under anti-hypertensive drug treatment.

Our total sample was randomly divided in two groups: one ‘study group’, in which we would realized the global hemodynamic maneuver; and one ‘control group’, that would receive the placebo technique.

The parameters chosen as indicators to measure the impact of the maneuver were the following: systolic pressure, diastolic pressure and heart rate. All of these indicators were registered in both groups, before and after applying the global hemodynamic maneuver and the placebo technique. 

A descriptive statistic analysis was made, and the results of rates were submmit to a Student’s test t to compare the differences between the averages of the data under consideration.

The results of this statistic analysis only showed a significant decrease  (p<0,05) on both systolic and diastolic pressure in the ‘control group’ and also in the heart rate on the ‘study group’.

That’s why we can affirm that the global hemodynamic maneuver  does not cause changes in the indicators under study, and that cannot cause any risk to patients presenting ‘essential arterial hypertension’.