SOUNDS HEARD IN THE AUDITORY METHOD OF MEASURING THE BLOOD PRESSURE
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- 17 August 1918
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 71 (7) , 514-518
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1918.02600330012005
Abstract
The working out of the main physical mechanism underlying the arm band method of measuring blood pressure by Luckhardt and Brooks1paved an easy way to the understanding of the sounds heard in the auditory method of measuring blood pressure. Brooks and Luckhardt also prepared a physical model which gave sounds somewhat similar to those heard from a pulsating, suitably compressed blood vessel. They described the mechanism of the sounds produced in experiments on this model, and suggested that the sounds heard in the auditory clinical method of blood pressure measurement might be produced in the same way as those heard on the model. Since that time work has been carried on in the clinic with the purpose of gathering new and more accurate data concerning the sounds actually to be heard in clinical practice from the compressed artery under the arm band, and to see if the characterKeywords
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