Electrocardiogram-assisted blood pressure estimation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 608-618

  Ahmad, Saif ^a   Chen, Silu ^a,b   Soueidan, Karen ^a   Batkin, Izmail ^a   Bolic, Miodrag ^a   Dajani, Hilmi ^a   Groza, Voicu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH IN MOTION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood pressure estimation; cuff pressure (CP); electrocardiogram (ECG); oscillometric analysis; pulse transit time (PTT)

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE ESTIMATION; CUFF PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG); OSCILLOMETRIC ANALYSIS; PULSE TRANSIT TIME;

BLOOD PRESSURE; ESTIMATION; INTEGRATION; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMPLIFIER; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE CUFF; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICROCOMPUTER; MONITOR; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLOMETRY; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PULSE TRANSIT TIME; PULSE WAVE; RELIABILITY; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CALIBRATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSCILLOMETRY; PILOT PROJECTS; PULSE; SOFTWARE; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS; TEXTILES;

EID: 84863142760     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2180019     Document Type: Article

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