Submitted by Thinklabs_sound... on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 00:41.
Korotkoff Sounds - Blood pressure sounds with slowly deflating cuff. Notice that slower deflation provides for more beats and potentially increased accuracy for onset of systole or detection of diastolic end-point.
Contributed by Alice Mayfield, Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University