Analysis of digital pulse-volume recordings with radial and ulnar artery compression

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1993-1998

  Dumanian, Gregory A ^a   Segalman, Keith ^b   Buehner, Jane W ^b   Koontz, Cherry L ^b   Hendrickson, Mark F ^b   Shaw Wilgis, E F ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; FEMALE; FINGER; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; PULSE RATE; RADIAL ARTERY; THUMB; ULNAR ARTERY;

EID: 0031773347     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199811000-00028     Document Type: Article

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