Harness, Dickey & Pierce, PLC
Method for determining cuff blood pressure
Most automatic cuff blood pressure (BP) measurement devices are based on oscillometry. These devices estimate BP from the envelopes of the cuff pressure oscillations using fixed ratios. The values of the fixed ratios represent population averages, so the devices may be accurate only in subjects with normal BP levels. A patient-specific oscillometric BP measurement method was developed. The idea was to represent the cuff pressure oscillation envelopes with a physiologic model and then estimate the patient-specific parameters of the model, which includes BP levels, by optimally fitting it to the envelopes.
University of Maryland, College Park Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
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Jiankun Ramakrishna Jin-Oh Mohsen
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