Abstract
There is a growing awareness among the populace regarding the role of a healthy lifestyle as a key component to overall health. One integral measure of good health is blood pressure. Hypertension leads to heart disease and other serious health issues for an individual, but it also affects society as a whole by a general decrease in productivity and economic loss and more specifically is a major cause of traffic accidents. Blood pressure monitors have been developed and sold widely and are in wide use throughout society, but these are primarily what are termed noninvasive monitors. The monitors currently available have some disadvantages including discomfort for the patient caused by painful cuff inflation, which may actually influence blood pressure readings, and the unfeasibility of continuous or semicontinuous blood pressure monitoring due to the necessity for repetitive cuff inflation and deflation. Cuffless blood pressure measuring systems have been developed which help to solve these problems, and in this paper, two of these systems and their effectiveness and practicality are introduced. Steering-type blood pressure monitoring systems and infrared blood pressure monitoring systems and their measurement principles are described, and their performance evaluation is also explained. The primary disadvantage of steering-type blood pressure monitoring systems is found to be accuracy; infrared blood pressure monitoring systems currently suffer from some time lag in reporting of results.
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Arakawa, T., Sakakibara, N., Kondo, S. (2020). Development and Evaluation of a Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring System. In: Sawan, M. (eds) Handbook of Biochips. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6623-9_50-1
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