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Simulators designed to mimic the pressure variations acting on the cuff of noninvasive arterial blood pressure monitoring or measuring devices when the cuff is placed on a patient\'s arm. Typically, these devices can simulate normal adult, infant, and neonatal blood pressure (e.g., systolic, diastolic, mean) and abnormal (e.g, hypertensive, hypotensive) values. Most simulators can perform static accuracy, leak, and overpressure tests. These simulators usually consist of an internal pump to generate the testing pressures, manometers, electronic circuitry, and a display. Noninvasive blood pressure simulators are used to test oscillometric noninvasive blood pressure monitors and electronic sphygmomanometers as a complete set, including the transducer. Some are also capable of simulations appropriate for testing auscultatory sphygmomanometers.
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