Mercury Sphygmomanometers in Healthcare and the Feasibility of Alternatives
Tuesday 17 November 2009
The Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) addresses the issue of whether the replacement of mercury-containing,
blood-pressure measuring devices (sphygmomanometers) would endanger proper
health care including specific groups of patients, and/or compromise long-term
translational epidemiological studies for public health.
>> http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_o_025.pdf
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