Electronic algesimeter

Details Electronic algesimeter Electronic algesimeter

1985-08-02

1987-02-10

Howell, Kyle L.

Surgery

Truss

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7386253, 7386267, A61B 1900

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046416617

ABSTRACT:
An electronic algesimeter adapted to determine by cutaneous sensation the threshold of pain experienced by a patient at any skin site on the body. The instrument includes a hand-held, pressure-sensitive transducer having projecting therefrom a sensor constituted by a pointed probe. When the point of the probe is pressed against the skin, the transducer then yields an electrical signal proportional to the applied pressure, this signal being fed to a resettable digital display. And when the pressure applied to the skin reaches a threshold value at which the patient experiences pain, a switch is actuated by the patient or the examiner to retain the digital indication at that value whereby it may be read by the examining physician and recorded after the instrument is withdrawn from the skin.

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