A heart rate monitor can be a useful tool for anyone interested in exercise because it allows a person to manage the intensity of a workout. This is important because personal fitness goals often require exercise to be maintained at some target heart rate. .

An activity monitor is a low-power, portable device used to measure and record such things as body movement and temperature for the purpose of tracking physical performance and number of calories consumed. Personal activity monitoring can provide an objective means for tracking one’s physical fitness progress. .

Enabling patients to monitor their own health status from home and then relay that data to a remote medical center is a concept that has seen the telehealth industry, though still in its infancy, grow at an exciting rate.

use an inflatable air-bladder cuff and a listening device or pressure sensor to measure blood pressure in an artery. Blood pressure monitors consist of either manually inflated cuffs with a stethoscope for listening to arterial wall sounds or a blood pressure monitor that contains a pressure sensor for sensing arterial wall vibrations. The automatic blood pressure monitors consist of upper-arm […]

Basic digital stethoscopes retain the look and feel of acoustic stethoscopes but improve listening performance. High-end digital stethoscopes offer sophisticated capabilities, such as audio recording and playback, and provide data to visually chart results by connecting to an off-instrument display. This advanced functionality increases the physician’s diagnostic capability. The essential elements of a digital stethoscope are the sound transducer, the audio […]

Digital thermometers measure body temperature over a small temperature range centered around 37°C. Digital thermometers provide faster, more convenient measurements and also eliminate the environmental hazard of mercury in legacy thermometers. Probe and ear digital thermometers are the two most common types. Temple and forehead types are also available. The probe type is used in the same way as a […]