What will replace the mercury sphygmomanometer?

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-25

  Pickering, Thomas G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Aneroid; Blood pressure measurement; Oscillometric

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

AUSCULTATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISPLAY SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HYBRID; HYPERTENSION; METHODOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; STANDARD; TECHNOLOGY; TONOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0037301090     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126097-200302000-00005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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