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- From: dfitts@carson.u.washington.edu (Douglas Fitts)
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- Subject: BP equipment needed
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:51:47 GMT
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- Can anyone help me locate a source for inexpensive *new* blood
- pressure measuring equipment?
-
- I have been having trouble locating simple equipment for measuring
- direct arterial blood pressure in rats. My budget period ends soon,
- and I need to spend this fast.
-
- The commercial products I have found are Mega packages with fancier
- computer controls than I need, and these cost far more than my
- roughly $7000 can allow (e.g., Harvard Instruments, BrainWave Systems,
- etc.). Stoelting has a fairly inexpensive apparatus, but it only
- has 2 channels. I want *new* equipment, because I am already
- disgusted with the quirks of old stuff.
-
- I need to measure MAP, systolic, diastolic, and heart rate in freely
- moving rodents. Thus, no indirect systems. I need to measure 3 or
- 4 at a time. I'll use Cobe disposable transducers and cables connected
- to signal conditioners in a frame of some kind. I have an original
- IBM 6-MHz AT with EGA that I can dedicate both as a display
- device and as data storage. I don't really need a full-blown computer-
- driven interface for the equipment, or even a sophisticated graphical
- display of the data. It would be sufficient to have the data come in
- through an AD board and stored in binary files. A small library of
- routines (with source code) to manipulate the files would be nice,
- but I can write my own front end as long as the formats of the data
- stream and binary files are known.
-
- --
- Doug Fitts
- Department of Psychology
- University of Washington
- Seattle, WA
- dfitts@u.washington.edu
-