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Clinical ballistocardiography is a simple, inexpensive, and painless method that provides extraordinarily useful diagnostic and prognostic information regarding cardiac systole and circulation.
Clinical ballistocardiography is a simple, inexpensive, and painless method that can provide useful diagnostic and prognostic information.
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May warrant reevaluation of ballistocardiography for cardiac assessment; leaves open prospective validation in contemporary practice.
BALLISTOCARDIOGRAPHY deals with the movements of the body that result from cardiac systole and the subsequent circulation of the blood mass through the vascular tree. At present, much of the mechanics of this field is incompletely understood and awaits further investigation; nevertheless, clinical application is now possible. With proper reservations, extraordinarily useful diagnostic and prognostic information can be obtained. The clinical method is quite simple, the test causes no discomfort to the patient, the apparatus is not expensive, and the interpretation of the tracings is not difficult. It is likely that clinical use will soon become widespread, and the science . . .
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Edward Rubenstein (1952) conducted a review in Cardiac systole and circulation. Clinical ballistocardiography was evaluated. Clinical ballistocardiography is a simple, inexpensive, and painless method that provides extraordinarily useful diagnostic and prognostic information regarding cardiac systole and circulation.
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