Electronic sphygmomanometers: The problems and some suggestions

Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 231-233

  Jilek, Jiri ^a  

^a KING DREW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CALIBRATION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OSCILLOMETRY; SHORT SURVEY; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GREAT BRITAIN; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0043125741     PISSN: 08998205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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