Scipione Riva-Rocci was an Italian internist, pathologist and pediatrician. He is best known for inventing an easy-to-use, cuff-based version of the mercury sphygmomanometer for the measurement of blood pressure.
Scipione Riva-Rocci was an Italian internist, pathologist and pediatrician. He is best known for inventing an easy-to-use, cuff-based version of the mercury sphygmomanometer for the measurement of blood pressure. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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In Group: Clinical Physician-Scientists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Introduction, sentence 2Quote, In Group: Clinical Physician-Scientists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Introduction, sentence 2
He is best known for the invention of an easy-to-use cuff-based version of the mercury sphygmomanometer for the measurement of blood pressure.
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Wikimedia FoundationDiscoveries: Discovery of Blood Pressure Measurement, History section 1896 sphygmomanometerQuote, Discoveries: Discovery of Blood Pressure Measurement, History section 1896 sphygmomanometer
Scipione Riva-Rocci introduced a more easily-usable version in 1896.
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