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Monitoring, Physiologic

Medical 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.
Guide Notes:	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
Also Called:	Patient Monitoring

Monitoring, Physiologic Categories.

	Drug Monitoring - The process of observing, recording, or detecting the effects of a chemical substance administered to an individual therapeutically or diagnostically.
	Monitoring, Ambulatory - The use of electronic equipment to observe or record physiologic processes while the patient undergoes normal daily activities.
	Monitoring, Immunologic - Testing of immune status in the diagnosis and therapy of cancer, immunoproliferative and immunodeficiency disorders, and autoimmune abnormalities. Changes in immune parameters are of special significance before, during and following organ transplantation. Strategies include measurement of tumor antigen and other markers (often by RADIOIMMUNOASSAY), studies of cellular or humoral immunity in cancer etiology, IMMUNOTHERAPY trials, etc.
	Monitoring, Intraoperative - The constant checking on the state or condition of a patient during the course of a surgical operation (e.g., checking of vital signs).
	Polysomnography - Simultaneous and continuous monitoring of relevant normal and abnormal physiological activity during sleep. (Stedman, 25th ed)
	Telemetry - Transmission of the readings of instruments to a remote location by means of wires, radio waves, or other means. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)

Monitoring, Physiologic Medical Definitions and Terms

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