Home Monitoring With a Modified Automatic Sphygmomanometer to Detect Recurrent Atrial Fibrillation

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-13

  Wiesel, Joseph ^a   Wiesel, David J ^b   Messineo, Frank C ^a  

^a NEW YORK HOSPITAL QUEENS   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

arrhythmia monitoring; Atrial fibrillation; automatic sphygmomanometer; pulse rhythm monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RHYTHM; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; SPHYGMOMANOMETER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; PULSE; RECURRENCE; SELF CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS;

EID: 33846116188     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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