A hydrostatic pressure approach to assess accuracy of finger blood pressure measurement

Author

Raamat, Rein ; Jagomagi, Kersti ; Talts, Jaak ; Kivastik, Jana

Author_Institution

Dept. of Physiol., Univ. of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

fYear

2009

fDate

4-7 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We studied the feasibility of application of consecutive hydrostatic pressure changes to assess accuracy of measurement of finger blood pressure changes in 11 normal volunteers. The results demonstrated that specific physiological responses to hand postural changes were small in healthy subjects and the consecutive hydrostatic pressure changes of controlled magnitude can be applied to assess accuracy of finger blood pressure measurement. As a calibration checking tool the proposed method may be helpful for cardiovascular diagnostics.

Keywords

blood pressure measurement; calibration; cardiovascular system; patient diagnosis; accuracy assessment; calibration checking tool; cardiovascular diagnostics; finger blood pressure measurement; hand postural changes; hydrostatic pressure approach; physiological responses; signal processing; Blood pressure; Fingers; Pressure measurement; Cardiovascular; accuracy; finger blood pressure; hydrostatic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, 2009. ITAB 2009. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Larnaca

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5379-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5379-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2009.5394356

Filename

5394356