Korotkoff auscultatory method for blood pressure
Método auscultatorio de Korotkov para la presión arterial
- Date
- 1905 · confidence high
- Place
- Imperial Military Medical Academy, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Credited to
- Nikolai Korotkov
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Nikolai Korotkov described the auscultatory method for measuring blood pressure: deflating a Riva-Rocci cuff while listening with a stethoscope to the turbulent-flow sounds in the artery reveals the systolic and diastolic pressures. It became the clinical gold standard throughout the 20th century.
Korotkov presented the method in a communication of barely 281 words to the Military Medical Academy; professor M. V. Yanovsky confirmed and spread the technique despite initial skepticism.
What it led to
- Widespread clinical adoption of blood pressure measurement
- Diagnosis and monitoring of hypertension
- Standardization of mercury and aneroid sphygmomanometers