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Monitoring, Physiologic

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Definition: The continuous measurement of physiological processes, blood pressure, heart rate, renal output, reflexes, respiration, etc., in a patient or experimental animal; includes pharmacologic monitoring, the measurement of administered drugs or their metabolites in the blood, tissues, or urine.  IM GEN only; avoid indexing routinely word "monitoring": must be "continuous" (see MeSH definition); note see related: there emphasis is on the computer-assisted processing   
See Also Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
Examples Actigraphy; Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring; Drug Monitoring; Esophageal pH Monitoring; Fetal Monitoring; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Monitoring, Immunologic; Monitoring, Intraoperative; Polysomnography; Telemetry; Uterine Monitoring 		Other names Patient Monitoring; Physiological Monitoring; Monitoring, Patient; Physiologic Monitoring; Monitoring, Physiological

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