Portable Device Will Take Blood Pressure
(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, August 21. A portable blood pressure recorder, developed at the Wellcome Research Institute in Dunedin, will enable people to take their own blood pressure at home or at work.
The recorder, which weighs about 41b, is worn on a belt round the waist. On one side of the belt is a small cassette-type tape recorder and on the other a tiny computer. Together, with the usual inflatable cuff on the upper arm, they combine to produce results which can be printed in readily comprehensible form on a teletype machine. The recorder was developed by two electronics experts on the institute’s technical staff, Mr A. T. Wallis and Mr A. Meek, who
have been working on the project intermittently for the last two years. They have completed the first unit, which will have its first public demonstration at a national electronics convention in Auckland next week. Work has begun on a second model. The director of hypertension research at the institute (Mr F. O. Simpson) said today the recorder would be used in research into the causes of high blood pressure. It also had a potential for practical application In hospitals.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32382, 22 August 1970, Page 1
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