| All sphygmomanometers had calibrated mercury columns and were of standard size. |
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| Four Member States requested widening the scope to include sphygmomanometers used in the healthcare sector whereas one had the opposite opinion. |
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| Mercury has been an integral part of many medical devices, most prominently thermometers and sphygmomanometers. |
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| The aneroid sphygmomanometers were inspected and calibrated by the Biomedical Engineering Department of the University of Michigan Health Systems. |
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| I must confirm what the rapporteur has already said: the majority of experts still consider mercury-containing blood pressure meters, sphygmomanometers, essential in the treatment of certain life-threatening diseases. |
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| Procurement for the instruments, sphygmomanometers, thermometers, stethoscopes, proctoscope, otoscopes, ear, nose, throat products, etc. |
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| The ban will apply to new fever thermometers for both professional and private use, and also to manometers, barometers, sphygmomanometers, thermometers other than fever thermometers. |
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| As with trends in electronic equipment everywhere, demands for miniaturisation have been placed on sensors for detecting gas and fluid pressure, which are incorporated into air conditioners and electronic sphygmomanometers. |
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| Secondly, the Council believes that banning also sphygmomanometers for healthcare use may be premature, because of the current lack of information on reliable safer mercury-free alternatives. |
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| In fact, because of risks of toxic exposure, mercury-tube sphygmomanometers are disappearing from use in this country today. |
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| Mercury sphygmomanometers used in the treatment of high blood pressure or arrhythmia do not have an equivalent substitute capable of equal accuracy, and alternative methods would be extremely expensive. |
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| This why the European Commission has proposed today to ban the marketing of mercury in new fever and room thermometers, barometers, blood pressure gauges and manometers and sphygmomanometers. |
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| Current healthcare cloud and services make use of already developed individual healthcare devices, such as sphygmomanometers or clinical thermometers. |
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| Sphygmomanometers are, in any case, used only in certain medical applications, and are absolutely indispensable in certain medical situations in which measurements are required to be of the utmost exactitude. |
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