Novel way to measure blood pressure

[zut212]

I would think that if we prick a human finger, or any other vascularized portion of the body, that the flow rate is a proxy of the blood pressure.

Is this a novel way to determine blood pressure?

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[bullsfan1986]

I don't follow your logic. How can you measure the pressure of something physiological if it is no longer physiologically pressurized?

 

[bullsfan1986]

Also, if what you're saying can actually be quantified, why use an invasive procedure unnecessarily? Wouldn't this be analogous to some form of "blood- letting"

 

[Donkeykiss]

Are you drunk or just stupid?

 

[latrala2300]

Are you drunk or just stupid?

ignoring the fact that invasive procedure would be stupid, wouldnt clotting factors complicate things?

 

[Evergrey]

Also, it may be difficult to measure the flow rate that precisely. And I don't even know how systolic/diastolic pressures would compare to the pressure you found using the method. But perhaps it would be possible, yes.

 

[zut212]

Also, it may be difficult to measure the flow rate that precisely. And I don't even know how systolic/diastolic pressures would compare to the pressure you found using the method. But perhaps it would be possible, yes.

Thanks Evergrey. My method was not novel, to say the least, but in fact, it was more complicated and invasive than the typical way to take blood pressure.

 

[NickNaylor]

Please make some more threads about "novel" (read: not novel) ways of doing things.