Sentence examples for pulse assessment from inspiring English sources

It has advantages over pulse assessment because the result is objective and it also has a higher specificity, keeping follow-up 12-lead ECGs to a minimum.

European guidelines for the management of AF recommended opportunistic pulse assessment by a primary care practitioner with a follow-up ECG for an irregular pulse, an approach which is more cost-effective than systematic screening with a 12-lead ECG.

The three main aims of this study are: To establish the percentage of patients with AF identified "de novo" by radial pulse assessment as compared to those discovered by regular clinical practice.

Moreover, until recently, 38 cardiovascular examinations including pulse assessment and cardiac auscultation were usually restricted to initial evaluation at diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, but exclusion of end points within the first month after diagnosis had no effect on our findings.

6 9 In primary care research studies the sensitivity of nurse pulse assessment is high, varying between studies from 87% to 97% although it has a lower specificity (70 81%) requiring one out of every three or four screened patients to have a follow-up ECG.

11 Given the observed association between higher pulse rate and severe disease, this is likely to have resulted in a slight overestimate of the sensitivity for SBI of all three methods of pulse assessment (temperature pulse centiles, pulse centiles and APLS definition of tachycardia).

The experiments of the in vivo chlorophyll fluorescence of PS II (Photosystem II) determination were carried out on Imaging-PAM (Heinz Walz, Effeltrich, Germany), using the automated induction and recovery curve routine provided by the ImagingPam software, with the repetitive application of saturation pulses for assessment of fluorescence.

Pulsed-Doppler assessment of in ovo hearts was performed at HH24, when embryo survival was still normal.

Physical health (head circumference, height, weight, blood pressure and pulse rate) and assessment of cardiac risk factors are recorded at assessment (and routinely thereafter).

It might be the habit he develops of opening each entry with a fitness assessment ("Pulse 53. Bad run, OK swim") that reads like pure Bridget.

Patients will have office and home blood pressure measurements as well as pulse wave velocity assessment.