Digital Blood Flow

Execution:

  1. The examiner compresses the patient’s nail bed
  2. The compression is released
  3. The time how long it takes until the color (blood) returns to the nail bed is taken

 

Positive Outcome: Blood does not return to the nail bed within 3 seconds after releasing the compression, which indicates insufficient arterial blood flow

Study Reliability Sn Sp LR+ LR-
Magee et al. (2014) NA NA NA NA NA