Wearable, Cuff-less PPG-Based Blood Pressure Monitor with Novel Height Sensor
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A truly wearable non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) sensor--light-weight, compact, unobstrusive, and essentially unnoticeable to the patient--could revolutionize healthcare delivered beyond the traditional walls of medical facilities, offering new ways to care for patients in their everyday surroundings. This paper presents results from our work towards the development of a self-contained, wearable blood pressure sensor. A PPG-based approach to blood pressure monitoring is presented. The design enables significant miniaturization of traditional oscillometric devices without the need for occlusive circumferential pressures. It will be shown how natural raising and lowering of the arm replaces the need for bulky actuators. Additionally, a dual-accelerometer height sensor that is tetherless is proposed and supported by experimental results.
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The PPG blood pressure sensor integrated a novel height sensor based on two MEMS accelerometers for measuring the hydrostatic pressure offset of the PPG sensor relative to the heart.
“The sensor integrated a novel height sensor based on two MEMS accelerometers for measuring the hydrostatic pressure offset of the PPG sensor relative to the heart.”
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The mean arterial blood pressure was derived from the PPG sensor output amplitude by taking into account the height of the sensor relative to the heart.
“The mean arterial blood pressure was derived from the PPG sensor output amplitude by taking into account the height of the sensor relative to the heart.”
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A self-contained wearable cuff-less photoplethysmographic (PPG) based blood pressure monitor was subsequently developed by the same research group.
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- Authors
- Shaltis, P. A., Reisner, A., & Asada, H. H.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Venue
- 2006 International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2006-08
- Volume
- 2006
- Pages
- 908-911
- ISSN
- 2375-7477 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2147533602
- Cited by
- 77
- References
- 6
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- FWCI
- 6.05
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
- Keywords
- cuffless blood pressure measurement, photoplethysmography, wearable sensors, non-invasive blood pressure
- MeSH terms
- Acceleration, Blood Pressure Determination, Body Height, Clothing, Equipment Design, Humans, Sensitivity and Specificity, Transducers, Reproducibility of Results, Photoplethysmography, Monitoring, Ambulatory, Equipment Failure Analysis
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