The measurement of blood pressure emerged in 1896 in a non-invasive way from the hands of the Italian doctor Scipione Riva-Rocci, who introduced the sphygmomanometer, an event that allowed the measurement of systolic blood pressure —known as the maximum— and almost a decade later , the Russian vascular surgeon Nicolai Korotkoff developed the auscultator technique, through which it was possible to measure the systolic and diastolic blood pressure —the minimum.