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The measurement of blood pressure
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
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In this paper, the procedure of the clinical measurement of blood pressure is modelled by the application of a uniform pressure band to a long, homogeneous, isotropic cylinder. The deformations are assumed to be infinitesimal, and transform methods are used to analyse the resulting equations. The inversion of the resulting transforms is carried out numerically. It is shown that, in spite of the fairly crude assumptions of the model, the actual load on the artery may be markedly different from that applied to the surface, leading to inaccuracies in the measured blood pressure. The parameter of importance is shown to be the ratio of pressure band width to arm diameter.
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