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sphygmomanometer
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A sphygmomanometer ( ), also known as a blood pressure monitor, blood pressure machine, or blood pressure gauge, is a device used to measure blood pressure, composed of an inflatable cuff to collapse and then release the artery under the cuff in a controlled manner, and a mercury or aneroid manometer to measure the pressure. Manual sphygmomanometers are used with a stethoscope when using the auscultatory technique.
Research
5,871 papers- Sphygmomanometer for Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring in a Medical Mission.Anesthesiology · 2019
- Sphygmomanometer.The American journal of gastroenterology · 2001
- Scoping review to compare the sphygmomanometer and pressure biofeedback unit in assessing core muscle strength.Journal of bodywork and movement therapies · 2024
- Sphygmomanometer-induced hemostasis following iatrogenic guidewire perforation during lower extremity angioplasty.Vascular · 2022
- Sphygmomanometer Dynamic Pressure Measurement Using a Condenser Microphone.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Digital
- Operation
- Significance
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A sphygmomanometer ( ), also known as a blood pressure monitor, blood pressure machine, or blood pressure gauge, is a device used to measure blood pressure, composed of an inflatable cuff to collapse and then release the artery under the cuff in a controlled manner, and a mercury or aneroid manometer to measure the pressure. Manual sphygmomanometers are used with a stethoscope when using the auscultatory technique.
A sphygmomanometer consists of an inflatable cuff, a measuring unit (the mercury manometer, or aneroid gauge), and a mechanism for inflation which may be a manually operated bulb and valve or a pump operated electrically.
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