Reverting to simplicity: palpating SBP.

Blood pressure (BP) measurement in clinical practice was made possible by the pioneering work of a number of clinical scientists and physiologists at the close of the nineteenth century. The work of von Basch, Potain, Hill, Barnard and perhaps most notably Marey, paved the way for the Italian clinician, Scipione Riva-Rocci to introduce the limb-occluding technique for palpatory measurement of SBP in 1896. (Fig. 1) [1].