BACKGROUND Automatic blood pressure monitoring conducted at home is increasingly used in the diagnosis and management of hypertension. We assessed the adequacy of existing British Hypertension Society (BHS) and Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) validation standards for automatic blood pressure monitoring devices. SUBJECT AND METHODS A theoretical study and an e...

BACKGROUND Automated devices are widely available in the community for people to measure their blood pressure. We assessed the accuracy and reproducibility of a brand of community-based automated device against the standard mercury sphygmomanometer. METHODS Same-arm pairs of blood pressure readings were obtained with the Vita-Stat 90550 automated device, a sphygmomanometer and the Omron HEM-7...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to demonstrate the assessment of hippocampal atrophy within a standard brain atlas for persons with age-associated memory impairment (AAMI) compared with cognitively intact elderly. METHODS High-resolution three-dimensional (3D) brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed on 20 nondemented persons: 10 had AAMI and 10 were normal elderly. Scans...

Drs. Nelson and Van De Water’s perceptive synopsis of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation ( AAMI ) 1981 meeting is appreciated. This appeared in Chest May, 1982 reporting the previous ( 1981 ) meeting. They are correct in stressing the enormous importance of digital subtraction videoangiography. Indeed, it promises to revolutionize cardiovascular diagnosis . . . and i...

1 Using chemical sterilants and high-level disinfectants in health care facilities The update of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation American National Standard Chemical sterilization and high-level disinfection in health care facilities, ANSI/AAMI ST58:2013, is available for purchase and should become part of health care facilities’ evidence-based library. Below is a ...

BACKGROUND Allowing patients to measure their blood pressure (BP) at home will be the standard for evaluating the disease state as the process of clinical diagnosis, and it is recognized as having great clinical utility. To measure BP as accurately as possible, innovative techniques have been incorporated into home BP measurement devices. OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to evaluate the perf...

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Safety Innovations Pump integration requires pervasive and reliable wireless coverage—if pumps can't communicate with the server via a wireless network, no integration can occur. Permission to Copy We encourage you to share this paper with your colleagues. You may freely reproduce this publication for educational purposes only, provided that proper attribution is made as follows: Copied with th...