Monitoring devices for falls and syncope

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 295-306

  Seifer, Colette M ^a,b   Parry, Steve W ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FALLING; HEART RATE; HEART RHYTHM; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYNCOPE; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; SYNCOPE;

EID: 0035984866     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-0690(02)00011-3     Document Type: Review

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