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Parametric Model between Pulse Transit Time and Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressures for Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Estimation

WUC De Alwis, RNS Rajapaksha, NNS Ranaweera, PAPMB Pitigalaarachchi, Ajith Pasqual

Conference IECBES 2014 IEEE Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES) , pp. 171-176 · 2014 · Cited by 6

Biosignal ProcessingPhysiological Monitoring and Digital Health

Abstract

Early detection of hypertension generally requires continuous monitoring of blood pressure levels which is not facilitated by traditional methods such as the cuff, which cannot be used in the normal environment for continuous monitoring due to the regular pressurization of certain body parts. Thus there is a need for non-invasive continuous pressure monitoring mechanism. In this paper we present a relationship between Pulse Transit Time (PTT) and Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) and Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP) for continuous pressure monitoring and its experimental validation.