Title :
Fully Automatic System for Monitoring Blood Pressure from a Toilet-Seat Using the Volume-Oscillometric Method
Author :
Tanaka, Shinobu ; Nogawa, Masamichi ; Yamakoshi, Ken-ichi
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Nature & Environ. Tech., Kanazawa Univ.
Abstract :
Daily monitoring of health condition at home is very important subject not only as an effective scheme for early diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and other diseases, but also for prevention and control of such diseases. From this point of view, we have been developing a fully automated "non-conscious" monitoring system for home health care. In this paper are described, structural detail of a newly developed toilet-seat-installed blood pressure measurement system and some results obtained by the system. Also described is outline of a newly designed system for measuring hydrostatic pressure difference between the heart and the measuring site, i.e., thigh, during blood pressure measurement
Keywords :
blood pressure measurement; cardiology; patient monitoring; blood pressure monitoring; fully automated nonconscious monitoring system; heart; home health care; hydrostatic pressure; thigh; toilet-seat-installed blood pressure measurement system; volume-oscillometric method; Automatic control; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Cardiac disease; Cardiology; Cardiovascular diseases; Computerized monitoring; Condition monitoring; Medical services; Pressure measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615323
