TY - JOUR
AU - Sola, J.
AB -  The clinical demand for a device to monitor Blood Pressure (BP) in ambulatory scenarios with minimal use of inflation cuffs is strong. Based on the so-called Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) principle, a novel BP sensor that can be fully integrated in a shirt-like system has been developed. After a preliminary calibration, the sensor has shown to successfully estimate BP with an accuracy falling within the limits of the British Hypertensive Society (BHS) Grade A standard. The reported technique paves the way towards an ambulatory-compliant, continuous and non-invasive BP monitoring system, where the use of inflation cuffs is drastically reduced. Introduction Elevated Blood Pressure (BP) is a human-specific illness affecting a quarter of the worldwide population. Clinically known as hypertension, elevated BP is considered the major risk factor for cardiovascular disease: the most common cause of death in developed countries. Consequently, detecting, treating and controlling hypertension are major goals of modern medicine [8]. For more than one century, the non-invasive measurement of BP has relied on the inflation of pneumatic cuffs around a limb, typically the upper arm [9]. In addition to being occlusive, and thus cumbersome, clinical cuff-based methods provide intermittent BP readings, i.e. every twenty minutes, hence 
TI - Continuous non-occlusive blood pressure monitoring at the sternum
JO - Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik
DO - 10.1515/bmt-2012-4264
DA - 2012-08-30
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/de-gruyter/continuous-non-occlusive-blood-pressure-monitoring-at-the-sternum-VXuW3ORK12
SP - 2
VL - 57
IS - 
DP - DeepDyve
ER -