Measuring orthostatic hypotension with the Finometer device: Is a blood pressure drop of one heartbeat clinically relevant?

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 167-171

  Van Der Velde, Nathalie ^a   Van Den Meiracker, Anton H ^a   Stricker, Bruno H Ch ^a   Van Der Cammen, Tischa J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elderly; Falls; Geriatric medicine; Orthostatic hypotension; Postural hypotension; Syncope

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALLING; FEMALE; FINOMETER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORS; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MALE; POSTURE; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS; SUPINE POSITION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34248371590     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBP.0b013e3280b083bd     Document Type: Article

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