Brachial artery waveforms for automatic blood pressure measurement

Nikolaos Stergiopulos
Elsevier, 2013
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Theoretically the auscultatory method using Korotkoff sounds is more related to the maximum artery closure status, while the oscillometric method is more related to the overall artery closure status under the cuff. Therefore, the latter is less accurate than the former. This work introduces a new method, which is more accurate than the oscillometric method and suitable for automatic devices. To monitor the maximum artery closure status, a piezoelectric film sensor is attached to the skin just above the brachial artery and under the central section of the cuff where maximum cuff pressure is transferred to the arm. Using the waveform features obtained by this sensor, measurement errors of 0.7 +/- 2.5 and 1.27 +/- 4.53 mmHg were obtained for the systolic and diastolic pressure, respectively. These reflect small deviations from auscultatory clinical data. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Nikolaos Stergiopulos
Elsevier, 2013
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Goal: We introduce a novel approach to estimate cardiac output (CO) and central systolic blood pressure (cSBP) from noninvasive measurements of peripheral cuff-pressure and carotid-to-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV). Methods: The adjustment of a previously validated one-dimensional arterial tree model is achieved via an optimization process. In the optimization loop, compliance and resistance of the generic arterial tree model as well as aortic flow are adjusted so that simulated brachial systolic and diastolic pressures and cf-PWV converge towards the measured brachial systolic and diastolic pressures and cf-PWV. The process is repeated until full convergence in terms of both brachial pressures and cf-PWV is reached. To assess the accuracy of the proposed framework, we implemented the algorithm on in vivo anonymized data from 20 subjects and compared the method-derived estimates of CO and cSBP to patient-specific measurements obtained with Mobil-O-Graph apparatus (central pressure) and two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (aortic blood flow). Results: Both CO and cSBP estimates were found to be in good agreement with the reference values achieving an RMSE of 0.36 L/min and 2.46 mmHg, respectively. Low biases were reported, namely -0.04 +/- 0.36 L/min for CO predictions and -0.27 +/- 2.51 mmHg for cSBP predictions. Significance: Our one-dimensional model can be successfully "tuned" to partially patient-specific standards by using noninvasive, easily obtained peripheral measurement data. The in vivo evaluation demonstrated that this method can potentially be used to obtain central aortic hemodynamic parameters in a noninvasive and accurate way.

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