Clinical and Investigative Application of a New Instrument for Continuous Recording of Blood Pressure and Heart Rate

Abstract

IN both routine hospital practice and clinical investigation, there has long been a need for an instrument that will continually record blood pressure and heart rate without discomfort to the patient.The instrument used in the present study was designed and constructed by Gilford and his associates.¹ This "physiologic monitor" is primarily intended for use by the anesthesiologist, providing him with a continuous record of the patient's blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate and minute respiratory volume, at the same time freeing him for other and occasionally more urgent duties in the operating room. The monitor also provides an instantaneous . . .