Why are we still measuring blood pressure by ear?

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 309-313

  Leca, Radu ^a   Groza, Voicu ^b  

^a Biosign Technologies Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arterial bloodpressure; Measurement standard

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BLOOD; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENT THEORY;

ARTERIAL BLOODPRESSURE; GOLD STANDARDS; MEASUREMENT STANDARD; MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES;

BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 51449109247     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2008.4547052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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