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Cuffless continuous Blood Pressure
Increased blood pressure – the highly prevalent hypertension
syndrome - is the most common risk factor of myocardial
infarction, congestive heart failure, stroke, kidney failure and
blindness. In the US 1 in 3 has hypertension and the total
costs per year are $ 63.5 bln. State of the art devices for
blood pressure monitoring are still mainly based on the
sphygmo-manometric occlusive arm-cuff, which are clumsy,
uncomfortable and allow only for intermittent measurements
at intervals of several minutes. There is a strong demand at
providing wearable comfortable solutions for estimating blood
pressure level and variation, which will give a more realistic
representation of a patient’s blood pressure in daily life situations.
The tutorial deals with technologies that enable cuff-less blood
pressure measurements, possibly at heartbeat-to-heartbeat level
and covers theoretical as well as practical issues. The basic
underlying principles, effects of physiological and physical activities,
experimental results together with some demonstrations and the
consequences for new blood pressure standards will be presented.
The tutorial will be held jointly by Prof. Zhang (University Hong Kong)
and Dr. Jens Mühlsteff (Philips Research Europe), who are both active
in this field for a couple of years.
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