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A minicomputer system for long-term automatic blood pressure monitoring

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An automated system for the indirect measurement of blood pressure on seacted factory workers has been developed and has been in continuous daily operation for nine months. Six industrial workers on a conveyor assembly line are monitored serially.

Because of completely automatic operation of this system, blood-pressure data can be collected over a long time period without any experimenter intervention.

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  1. Geddes, L. A.The Direct and Indirect Measurement of Blood Pressure. Chicago: Year Book Publishers, 1970, p. 196.

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  1. Biomedical Engineering Center, Purdue University, 47907, West Lafayette, Indiana

    Leslie A. Geddes

  2. School of Industrial Engineering, Grissom Hall, Purdue University, 47907, West Lafayette, Indiana

    James L. Knight Jr. & Gavriel Salvendy

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  1. James L. Knight Jr.
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  2. Gavriel Salvendy
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This system was developed as part of a larger study titled “Effects of Paced Performance on Industrial Productivity, Job Satisfaction and Physiological Stress,” NSF Grant #7718695

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Knight, J.L., Salvendy, G. & Geddes, L.A. A minicomputer system for long-term automatic blood pressure monitoring. Ann Biomed Eng 7, 369–374 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02364123

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