Demise of the mercury sphygmomanometer and the dawning of a new era in blood pressure measurement
Demise of the mercury sphygmomanometer and the dawning of a new era in blood pressure measurement
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DOI：
10.1097/00126097-200302000-00004
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发表时间：
2003-02-01
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1.3
通讯作者：
O'Brien, E
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作者：
O'Brien, E
在使用了世纪多一点之后，传统的Riva-Rocci/Korotkoff技术，即用水银血压计和听诊器测量血压，现在正被降级到博物馆的货架上。虽然我们可能对这种临床测量方法很感兴趣，但我们必须承认，这种技术充满了不准确性，技术时代带来了更准确的替代方法。然而，我们必须确保取代传统技术的自动化设备的准确性得到独立验证。欧洲高血压学会血压监测工作组最近发布了一项国际协议，以促进比早期更复杂的协议更自动化的设备的验证。
After a little more than a century of use, the conventional Riva-Rocci/Korotkoff technique of measuring blood pressure with a mercury sphygmomanometer and stethoscope, is now being relegated to the museum shelves. Affectionately attached though we may be to this clinical measurement, we must acknowledge that the technique is fraught with inaccuracy and that the age of technology has brought more accurate alternative methodologies. However, we must ensure that the automated devices that are replacing the conventional technique are validated independently for accuracy. The Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring of the European Society of Hypertension has recently published an International Protocol to facilitate the validation of more automated devices than was possible with the earlier more complicated protocols.