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Blood pressure checker
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 1979 |
| Description | An estimated 30 million people in the United States have high blood pressure, or hypertension. But a great many of them are unaware of it because hypertension, in its initial stages, displays no symptoms. Thus, the simply-operated blood pressure checking devices now widely located in public places are useful health aids. The one pictured above, called -Medimax 30, is a direct spinoff from NASA technology developed to monitor astronauts in space. For manned space flights, NASA wanted a compact, highly-reliable, extremely accurate method of checking astronauts' blood pressure without the need for a physician's interpretive skill. NASA's Johnson Space Center and Technology, Inc., a contractor, developed an electronic sound processor that automatically analyzes blood flow sounds to get both systolic (contracting arteries) and diastolic (expanding arteries) blood pressure measurements. NASA granted a patent license for this technology to Advanced Life Sciences, Inc., New York City, manufacturers of Medimax 30. |
| File Size | 227561 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20070019753 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9h46j57t |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1979-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Technology Utilization And Surface Transportation Hypertension Patents Signs and Symptoms Physicians Estimating Blood Pressure Life Sciences Pressure Measurement Arteries Blood Flow Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
