Inaccuracy of wrist-cuff oscillometric blood pressure devices: An arm position artefact?

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 67-71

  Mourad, Adnan ^a   Gillies, Alastair ^a   Carney, Shane ^a,b  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arm position; Arm cuff; Blood pressure; Hypertension; Self measurement; Wrist cuff

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; DEVICE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OSCILLOMETRY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNUM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS; WRIST;

EID: 17844391270     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126097-200504000-00003     Document Type: Article

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