The auscultation method is also called the Korotkoff sound method, because the Korotkoff sound method itself was realized and proposed through the auscultation method, and was later used in medical institutions around the world. It has a history of a hundred years, so later, Let’s take the auscultation method and the Korotkoff sound method as two different names for one method.
What is the Korotkoff sound method? The Korotkoff sound method is a method of measuring blood pressure using Korotkoff sounds. This is the only collective name for blood pressure measurement and measurement methods recognized by international medicine. In 1905, the Russian scholar Korotokoff reported his discovery of Korotkoff sounds, and proposed that the external pressure corresponding to the first audible snap sound should be regarded as the systolic pressure, which is the highest blood pressure formed in the brachial artery with the systolic pressure of the heart. The pressure is equivalent; when there is a disappearing sound (when there is no disappearing sound, the "sound change" when the beat sound changes to a covering sound) is recorded as the diastolic pressure, which is equivalent to the lowest intra-blood pressure formed in the brachial artery of the heart. This method was quickly accepted by the international medical organizations at that time and was named the Korotkoff sound method. For more than a hundred years, people have been exploring more reliable methods and instruments for blood pressure measurement, but all have been unsuccessful, including oscillometric electronic sphygmomanometers. Therefore, regular hospitals in my country have to continue to use mercury sphygmomanometers. Due to environmental protection, developed countries in Europe and the United States have Reasons have banned the use of mercury sphygmomanometers and their medical institutions use sphygmomanometers. Faced with the fact of previous failures, some people internationally call the auscultation method the gold standard for blood pressure measurement. Hundreds of years of historical facts have proven that the auscultation method is irreplaceable so far. The auscultation method is a scientific and classic blood pressure measurement and measurement instrument.