tilt test

The process of taking orthostatic vital signs is also called a "tilt test".

This necessitated ballasting, to avoid pitch problems, and a tilt test, to check stability.

In geomechanics, a tilt test is a simple test to estimate the shear strength parameters of a discontinuity.

Tilt test may refer to:

Due to problems with the new TfL specified air-conditioning units, some buses failed the tilt test by one degree, and entered service late.

Tilt test (Geotechnical engineering)

The size of the specimen is limited to 10-20 cm for hand-held tests, while machine-operated tilt test equipment may handle up to meter-sized samples.

The very first time I did a Tilt Test, I remember thinking, "Oh for heaven's sake, what have I gotten myself into?"

The Tilt test is a type of safety test that certain government vehicle certification bodies require new vehicle designs to pass before being allowed on the road or rail track.

The NICE guideline discourages routine performance of the head-up tilt test, auditory brainstem response and electrodermal conductivity for the purpose of diagnosis.

Bielschowsky's head tilt test: A test for palsy of the superior oblique muscle caused by damage to cranial nerve IV (trochlear nerve).

Sixteen of the 22 patients who tested positive did so during the first of the three stages of the tilt test; in that first stage, the patient is tilted for 45 minutes.

A tilt test is judged to be "positive" when the blood pressure of the patient falls by more than 20 mm Hg or the pulse rises by more than 20 beats a minute.

Before the bus could carry fare-paying passengers, it had to undergo a 35 tilt test and required an amendment to the Road Traffic Act since the exhaust was not sited at the rear of the vehicle.

The sliding-angle is based on the ease with which a block of rock material can move over a discontinuity and hence is comparable to the tilt-angle as determined with the tilt test but on a larger scale.

As for the tilt test, experts like Dr. Benjamin D. Levine of Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas say that for unknown reasons, most endurance athletes, particularly tall ones, faint in them, making it difficult to evaluate the results.

During the tilt test, all 22 patients with the hypotension experienced lightheadedness, nausea or fainting and a drop of 25 millimeters of mercury in systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading) without an increase in heart rate.

After a EKG, Holter monitor, tilt test, cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, heart catheterization, EP study, echo-cardiogram, and extensive blood work, and possible a sleep study, a cardiologist may rule out a heart condition.

The company imported the vehicles during 2003 and went through a lengthy process involving in-house tilt test work to gain Certification for three types of vehicle: 12 metre long Leyland Olympian/Alexander and both 12m and 11m Dennis Dragon/Duple MetSec.