Although the ban on mercury devices in hospitals and offices has certainly put a lid on the popularity of mercury sphygmomanometers in the US and many other countries, they’re still considered the gold standard when it comes to accurately measuring blood pressure...
The Oura Ring is, I think, the most effective device on the market today for tracking things like heart rate variability,sleep, and physical activity. I have one myself and we use it extensively with our patients in the clinic. So I wanted to talk with Harpreet about heart rate variabilit...
SAP is frequently used in some definitions of shock rather than as a therapeutic target in shock states. SAP at the central level is lower compared with that at the periphery due to the pulse wave amplification (PWA) phenomenon; thus, SAP measured in the femoral artery is lower than that ...
The subjects were recruited from randomly selected clinics and hospitals that were members of a medical association, and divided into two groups. In one group, BP was measured before and after taking 6 DB over a period of 30 s, and in the other group BP was measured before and after a ...
in the context of this special issue on the accuracy of automated BPMDs [30]. Before describing how automated BPMDs work, it is beneficial to know their operating principles and what is measured by the auscultatory method using a mercury sphygmomanometer because even though this method is ...
By definition, weights will be exactly 1 for all CTC recipient households. 19. We also filter out households in the lowest half-percent of the distribution for net outflow transfers, which is the only dependent variable that can take negative values. ...
What’s more, biphasic waveform defibrillation produced less impairment of cardiac function as measured by arterial pressure, recurrence of heart rate, and echocardiography[3]. Monophasic vs. Biphasic AEDs: which is better? The very first defibrillators were monophasic devices, and they have ...
After her first ward round she turned to me and said, ‘I look around this place and I ask myself, who is giving these patients love?’ I loved the elderly secretary on Ward 2. Apart from being a first rate source of gossip, she took shorthand then typed up my letters, improving ...
“non-regular,” meaning a part-time or flex worker. The researchers also measured the degree of cobot adoption in a given nursing home. But they needed to introduce a random variable to prove causality between the adoption of robots and the effects on staffing. Luckily for them, different ...
“Canada has vaulted itself to the unenviable front of the line for this,” Zivot said in an interview with National Post. “I think my work is pretty close enough to what is happening in Canada that it warrants some circumspection, and that’s all I’m asking for.” Zivot is a lifelo...