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05:47 May 19, 2009
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Medical - Medical: Instruments
English term or phrase: spike
The monitoring kit (for arterial pressure) contains:
pressure transducer with macro set, spike, line lock and flush device (flow rate 3 ml/h)
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4needle
Max Nuijens, MSc
3long metal nailYasutomo Kanazawa


  

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long metal nail


Explanation:
There is another meaning for the word spike using in medical terms, a hypodermic needle, but I don't think this would fit in this context. I think spike here means a long metal nail to lock the monitoring kit from moving.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Local time: 10:22
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
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needle


Explanation:
In this case the arterial pressure monitoring kit is invasive. It is intra-arterial. Therefore it is a needle that is meant here.

See for example:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119636479/abstrac...

Max Nuijens, MSc
Belarus
Local time: 04:22
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gary D: A needle for inserting into the vein or artery which is used as a monitoring spike rather than just a needle for drawing or delivering.
2 hrs
  -> monitoring spike, very nice, thank you
agree  Jörgen Slet
22 hrs
  -> Thank you
disagree  nakcl: If so, they would use the term 'needle'. Most of the monitoring kit do not include needle(s).
1 day1 min
  -> Perhaps most monitoring kitS do not include needles. But this one certainly does.
disagree  Siegfried Armbruster: agree with nakcl. A "spike" in this context is a spike and not a needle
1 day9 hrs
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