A procedure for evaluation of non-invasive blood pressure simulators

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1221-1228

  Geršak, Gregor ^a   Žemva, Aleš ^b   Drnovšek, Janko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Blood pressure measurement; Calibration; Evaluation; NIBP; Oscillometry; Simulator

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; COMMERCIAL SIMULATORS; DYNAMIC TESTS; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; METROLOGICAL QUALITY; NON-INVASIVE; OSCILLOMETRY; QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEMS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STATIC TESTS; TECHNICAL MAINTENANCE; TIME INTERVAL;

BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALIBRATION; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC LOAD SHEDDING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE SENSORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TESTING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

SIMULATORS;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MONITOR; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; OSCILLOMETRY;

EID: 77249125284     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-009-0532-2     Document Type: Review

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