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.
Synonyms: Monitoring, Physiologic, Patient Monitoring, Physiologic Monitoring, Monitoring, Patient, Physiological Monitoring, Monitoring, Physiological
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use MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC to search MONITORING SYSTEMS 1966-77 ,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 ,78; MONITORING SYSTEMS was heading 1966-77
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