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Research draft

pressure

vr.tr.pressure · XCT.STA

Let an agent handle pressure by kind, units, measurement and safety, and route blood pressure questions to health guidance without diagnosis.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent handle pressure by kind, units, measurement and safety, and route blood pressure questions to health guidance without diagnosis.

Force applied perpendicular to a surface per unit area, measured in pascals (N/m2); includes atmospheric, hydrostatic, gas and blood pressure, expressed as absolute or gauge pressure.

What it is for: Engineering, weather, medicine and everyday devices.

It can be convert pressure units; distinguish absolute and gauge pressure; read gauges and sensors; check pressure equipment safety.

Distinguishing features

Force per unit area

Scalar quantity

Many units in use

Relevant to safety

What it looks like

Not visible; shown on gauges, barometers and monitors.

Physical character

standard atmosphere: 101325 Pa

1 bar: 100000 Pa

How it is recognised

Units: Pa, bar, psi, mmHg, atm

Gauge versus absolute readings

Social pressure is a different sense

Related models

is a kind of - category

physical quantity

is measured in - unit

pascal

is measured by - instruments

manometer and barometer

includes - medical sense

blood pressure

In practice

Families and kinds

atmospheric pressure

hydrostatic pressure

gas pressure

blood pressure

tyre pressure

Identifiers

SI unit pascal (Pa) unit

Standards and regulation

SI Brochure

EU Pressure Equipment Directive

Blood pressure measurement guidelines

Failure modes and hazards

Pressure vessel failure

Confusing gauge and absolute pressure

Agents interpreting personal blood pressure readings

Also called

blood pressurearterial blood pressurepulmonary wedge pressuremean arterial pressuresystolic blood pressurediastolic blood pressureintracardiac pressureaortic pressurevenous blood pressurepulmonary artery pressureventricular pressuresystemic arterial pressureBlood gas tensionPCO2arterial oxygen partial pressurePaCO2sound pressurehydrostatic pressuremean effective pressureosmotic pressurestatic pressurepartial pressurepositive pressuremagnetic pressurepartial pressure at saturationroot-mean-square sound pressurereference sound pressureOncotic pressureoxygen partial pressureOverpressurestagnation pressureisostatic pressureplasma pressurespecific pressurepressure droproot pressureside pressureintracranial pressurepressure intervaloverburden pressure

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.pressure-state

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Quantity Which pressure.

Kind and reference matter.

Kind

Atmospheric, gas.

Kind

Pressure kind.

  1. Which kind of pressure is meant? definition
  2. Is it absolute or gauge pressure? definition

Units

Conversion.

Units

Units.

  1. What is the value in pascals or another unit? measurement
  2. Which unit is conventional here? definition
Measurement Instruments.

Instruments measure pressure.

Instrument

Gauges.

Instrument

Instrument.

  1. Which instrument measures it? definition
  2. How accurate is it? measurement

Calibration

Accuracy.

Calibration

Calibration.

  1. When was the gauge last calibrated? provenance
  2. Against which standard? provenance
Safety Equipment.

Pressure can be dangerous.

Equipment

Vessels.

Equipment

Pressure equipment.

  1. What is the maximum allowable pressure of this equipment? measurement
  2. Is it inspected as required? provenance

Tyres

Everyday.

Tyres

Tyre pressure.

  1. What tyre pressure does the manufacturer specify? provenance
  2. Should it be checked cold? action
Health Blood pressure.

Clinicians interpret readings.

Reading

Measurement.

Reading

Blood pressure reading.

  1. How is blood pressure measured correctly, according to guidelines? provenance
  2. Is a very high reading with symptoms an emergency? boundary

Advice

Clinician.

Advice

Advice limit.

  1. Is the user asking to interpret their own readings? boundary
  2. How should they be referred to a clinician? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should pressure kinds be separate entries?
  • How should unit conversion be linked?
  • How should blood pressure be split off?