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What's the name of the device they always show in movies and shows and stuff where it's a bobbing red line that generate peaks to measure heart rate? Then usually when someone dies, it's just a solid red line.
hi,thanks for query.What you asking is thing called cardiac monitor,this machine makes graphical record cardiac activity.As you know heart has got a electrical circuit so that its activities can be recorded.This give valuable information about heart like,beating rate,pattern of beating,heart getting proper blood supply etc.
wishing you good health.
hi,
These monitors are called multi parameter monitor which monitors
1 electrical activity of heart/ ECG
2 oxygen saturation in blood/ SPO2
3 Intra arterial blood pressure monitor/ IABP
4 Non invasive blood pressure monitor/ NIBP
5 Respiratory rate monitor
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