Are automated blood pressure monitors accurate enough to calculate the ankle brachial pressure index?

Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 381-384

  MacDonald, Euan ^b   Froggatt, Paul ^a   Lawrence, Gwen ^a   Blair, Stephen ^a  

^a ARROWE PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ankle brachial pressure index; Leg ulcer; Oscillometry; Peripheral vascular diseases; Ultrasonography doppler

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORRELATION METHODS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; RISK MANAGEMENT; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ANKLE-BRACHIAL PRESSURE INDEX; ARTERIAL DISEASES; AUTOMATED DEVICES; CARDIOVASCULAR RISKS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; DOPPLER; DOPPLER MEASUREMENTS; LEG ULCER; OBSERVER ERRORS; OSCILLOMETRY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PRESSURE INDICES; PRESSURE MONITORS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURES; VASCULAR DISEASES;

AUTOMATION;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ANKLE PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG ULCER; MALE; MONITOR; OSCILLOMETRY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 56749175036     PISSN: 13871307     EISSN: 15732614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-008-9146-8     Document Type: Article

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