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The mercury issue

O’Brien E. Will mercury manometers shortly be obsolete? . Ir Med Times May 1998. P. 42

O’Brien E. The banning of mercury. J Hypertension 1998;16:139912/5/98) (Letter)

O’Brien E. The banning of mercury. ISH Hypertension News. December 1999 (Letter)

O’Brien E. Consequences of banning mercury and the cuff controversy. Blood Pressure Monit 2000;5:33-34

O’Brien E. Has conventional sphygmomanometry ended with the banning of mercury? Blood Press Monit 2002;7:37-40

O’Brien E. Replacing the mercury sphygmomanometer. BMJ 2000;320;815-816

O’Brien E. Response to the Advisory Statement from the Council for High Blood
Pressure Research of the American Heart Association Advocating Retention of Mercury Sphygmomanometer. Hypertension 2001;38:e19-e20

O’Brien E. Demise of the mercury sphygmomanometer and the dawning of a new era in blood pressure measurement. Blood Pressure Monit 2003;8:19-21

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    • Conventional blood pressure measurement
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    • Oliver Fitzgerald
    • William Stokes
    • Robert Graves
    • John Cheyne
    • Robert Adams
    • J.D.H. Widdess
    • Walter Sommerville
    • Samuel Beckett
    • A.J. (Con) Leventhal
    • Nevill Johnson
      • Nevill Johnson: Paint the smell of grass
    • Oliver St John Gogarty
    • Denis Johnston
    • Dom Peter Flood
    • Micheal MacLiammoir
    • Petr Skrabanek
  • HISTORY OF MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS
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    • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
    • Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
    • The Charitable Infirmary
    • The Richmond Hospital
    • Beaumont Hospital
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