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Indirect Measurements<br />

Auscultatory Method<br />

PBS&D – Fall 2004 – Polikar http://engineering.rowan.edu/~polikar/CLASSES/ECE404<br />

Most commonly used<br />

technique for listening<br />

sounds and/or indirectly<br />

(non-invasively)<br />

measuring blood pressure<br />

is the auscultatory method<br />

For NIBP, one listens to<br />

the Korotk<strong>of</strong>f sounds<br />

Typically less then 200<br />

Hz, where human hearing<br />

is not very acute, time<br />

consuming, but<br />

remarkably accurate<br />

Brachial artery

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