Automatic method for measuring and processing blood pressure
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1. An automatic method for measuring and processing blood pressure of a cardiocirculatory system, comprising dynamically analyzing and correcting the pressure measurement by:
- A. one of, invasively or non-invasively, detecting a sampled pressure signal P(t) for one or more heart beats using pressure detectors, each heart beat starting at an initial instant of time coinciding with an initial diastolic pressure point and ending at a final instant of time coinciding with a subsequent diastolic pressure point and comprising a dicrotic point, each beat having a systolic phase going from the initial diastolic pressure point to the dicrotic point; and
associating by way of a processor, a processing window to a portion of the sampled pressure signal P(t) corresponding to a heart beat;
B. automatically analyzing and discriminating morphology of the sampled pressure signal P(t) for the heart beat associated to said processing window by one of, directly in the time domain or from a recorded signal, determining a first derivative dP/dt and a second derivative d2P/dt2 of the detected sampled pressure signal P(t), and determining an instant of time and pressure value of one or more characteristic points of the sampled pressure signal P(t) selected from the group comprisingan initial diastolic pressure point,a systolic pressure point,a dicrotic point, andone or more resonance points, each one of which occurs in an instant of time
wherein a second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t) has a local maximum, among which resonance points the point of diastolic peak, defined as the peak after the dicrotic point in the diastolic phase of each heart beat, is always present,
at least one of the one or more characteristic points of the sampled pressure signal P(t) belonging to the systolic phase of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration and being different from the initial diastolic pressure point;
C. for the heart beat associated with the processing window, determining an energy efficiency defined as a Result of the Energy ratio of the System (RES) through the following;
C.1 determining a direct dynamic impedance Zd_D(t) for each one of said one or more characteristic points belonging to the systolic phase of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration and different from the initial diastolic pressure point, said direct dynamic impedance Zd_D(t) being equal to the ratio between a value of the sampled pressure signal P(t) at the characteristic point and interval of time between the respective instant of time and the initial instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, and determining an impedance ZD of a direct wave of pressure by summing with alternate signs the values of the direct dynamic impedances Zd_D(t) ordered according to a first sequence, wherein said first sequence goes from the initial instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration until the instant of time of the dicrotic point, beginning by applying a positive sign to the first direct dynamic impedance Zd_D(t) in the first sequence;
C.2 determining a reflected dynamic impedance Zd_R(t) for each one of said one or more characteristic points, said reflected dynamic impedance Zd_R(t) being equal to the ratio between a value of the sampled pressure signal P(t) at the characteristic point and the interval of time between the respective instant of time of that characteristic point, and the final instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, and determining an impedance ZR of reflected waves of pressure by summing with alternate signs the values of the reflected dynamic impedances Zd_R(t) ordered according to a second sequence, wherein said second sequence goes from the final instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration until the initial instant of time of the heart beat under consideration, beginning by applying a positive sign to the first reflected dynamic impedance Zd_R(t) in the second sequence; and
C.3 determining said energy efficiency RES as a ratio between the impedance ZD of the direct wave and the impedance ZR of the reflected waves;
RES=ZD/ZR D. for said energy efficiency RES determined in step C, checking whether a first derivative dP/dt of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is lower than a first predetermined value Td of maximum threshold in a whole heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration and whether the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is lower than a second predetermined value Td2 of maximum threshold in the whole heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, and in the event that the checking yields at least one of, (1) an outcome that dP/dt of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is not lower than a first predetermined value Td and (2) an outcome that the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is not lower than a second predetermined value Td2, performing step E, otherwise, in the case where the checking yields that dP/dt of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is lower than a first predetermined value Td and the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is lower than a second predetermined value Td2, performing step F;
E. selecting a cutoff frequency of a low-pass filter on the basis of said energy efficiency RES determined in step C, and also on the basis of the first derivative dP/dt and the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t), and applying said low-pass filter to the sampled pressure signal P(t), thus obtaining a new sampled pressure signal, and returning to execute the preceding steps starting from step B;
F. outputting the sampled pressure signal P(t) on which step B has been performed most recently, and if the sampled pressure signal P(t) comprises one or more heart beats which have not been analyzed yet, shifting the processing window on to the next heart beat of the sampled pressure signal P(t) and returning to execute the preceding steps starting from step B, otherwise making the method come to an end, andwherein steps B to F are executed by the processor.
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Abstract
Automatic method, as well as the related system and the tools allowing the same to be executed, for measuring and processing blood pressure starting from a detected pressure signal, the method operating in the time domain for discriminating whether the detected signal is an adequate measurement or not and, where it is not, time domain analysis automatically selects a low-pass filter to, possibly iteratively, apply to the detected pressure signal for having correct values and wave form of the blood pressure.
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1. An automatic method for measuring and processing blood pressure of a cardiocirculatory system, comprising dynamically analyzing and correcting the pressure measurement by:
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A. one of, invasively or non-invasively, detecting a sampled pressure signal P(t) for one or more heart beats using pressure detectors, each heart beat starting at an initial instant of time coinciding with an initial diastolic pressure point and ending at a final instant of time coinciding with a subsequent diastolic pressure point and comprising a dicrotic point, each beat having a systolic phase going from the initial diastolic pressure point to the dicrotic point; and
associating by way of a processor, a processing window to a portion of the sampled pressure signal P(t) corresponding to a heart beat;B. automatically analyzing and discriminating morphology of the sampled pressure signal P(t) for the heart beat associated to said processing window by one of, directly in the time domain or from a recorded signal, determining a first derivative dP/dt and a second derivative d2P/dt2 of the detected sampled pressure signal P(t), and determining an instant of time and pressure value of one or more characteristic points of the sampled pressure signal P(t) selected from the group comprising an initial diastolic pressure point, a systolic pressure point, a dicrotic point, and one or more resonance points, each one of which occurs in an instant of time
wherein a second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t) has a local maximum, among which resonance points the point of diastolic peak, defined as the peak after the dicrotic point in the diastolic phase of each heart beat, is always present,
at least one of the one or more characteristic points of the sampled pressure signal P(t) belonging to the systolic phase of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration and being different from the initial diastolic pressure point;C. for the heart beat associated with the processing window, determining an energy efficiency defined as a Result of the Energy ratio of the System (RES) through the following; C.1 determining a direct dynamic impedance Zd_D(t) for each one of said one or more characteristic points belonging to the systolic phase of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration and different from the initial diastolic pressure point, said direct dynamic impedance Zd_D(t) being equal to the ratio between a value of the sampled pressure signal P(t) at the characteristic point and interval of time between the respective instant of time and the initial instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, and determining an impedance ZD of a direct wave of pressure by summing with alternate signs the values of the direct dynamic impedances Zd_D(t) ordered according to a first sequence, wherein said first sequence goes from the initial instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration until the instant of time of the dicrotic point, beginning by applying a positive sign to the first direct dynamic impedance Zd_D(t) in the first sequence; C.2 determining a reflected dynamic impedance Zd_R(t) for each one of said one or more characteristic points, said reflected dynamic impedance Zd_R(t) being equal to the ratio between a value of the sampled pressure signal P(t) at the characteristic point and the interval of time between the respective instant of time of that characteristic point, and the final instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, and determining an impedance ZR of reflected waves of pressure by summing with alternate signs the values of the reflected dynamic impedances Zd_R(t) ordered according to a second sequence, wherein said second sequence goes from the final instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration until the initial instant of time of the heart beat under consideration, beginning by applying a positive sign to the first reflected dynamic impedance Zd_R(t) in the second sequence; and C.3 determining said energy efficiency RES as a ratio between the impedance ZD of the direct wave and the impedance ZR of the reflected waves;
RES=ZD/ZRD. for said energy efficiency RES determined in step C, checking whether a first derivative dP/dt of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is lower than a first predetermined value Td of maximum threshold in a whole heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration and whether the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is lower than a second predetermined value Td2 of maximum threshold in the whole heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, and in the event that the checking yields at least one of, (1) an outcome that dP/dt of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is not lower than a first predetermined value Td and (2) an outcome that the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is not lower than a second predetermined value Td2, performing step E, otherwise, in the case where the checking yields that dP/dt of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is lower than a first predetermined value Td and the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is lower than a second predetermined value Td2, performing step F; E. selecting a cutoff frequency of a low-pass filter on the basis of said energy efficiency RES determined in step C, and also on the basis of the first derivative dP/dt and the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t), and applying said low-pass filter to the sampled pressure signal P(t), thus obtaining a new sampled pressure signal, and returning to execute the preceding steps starting from step B; F. outputting the sampled pressure signal P(t) on which step B has been performed most recently, and if the sampled pressure signal P(t) comprises one or more heart beats which have not been analyzed yet, shifting the processing window on to the next heart beat of the sampled pressure signal P(t) and returning to execute the preceding steps starting from step B, otherwise making the method come to an end, and wherein steps B to F are executed by the processor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An apparatus for automatically measuring and processing blood pressure of a cardiocirculatory system, comprising pressure detectors and a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions include dynamically analyzing and correcting a blood pressure measurement by a method comprising:
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A. one of, invasively or non-invasively, detecting a sampled pressure signal P(t) for one or more heart beats using said pressure detectors, each heart beat starting at an initial instant of time coinciding with an initial diastolic pressure point and ending at a final instant of time coinciding with a subsequent diastolic pressure point and comprising a dicrotic point, each beat having a systolic phase going from the initial diastolic point to the dicrotic point, and associating by way of a processor, a processing window to a portion of the sampled pressure signal P(t) corresponding to a heart beat; B. automatically analyzing and discriminating morphology of the pressure signal P(t) sampled for the heart beat associated with the processing window by one of, directly in the time domain, or from a recorded signal, determining a first derivative dP/dt and a second derivative d2P/dt2 of the pressure signal P(t), and determining an instant of time and pressure value of one or more characteristic points of the pressure signal P(t) selected from the group comprising the initial diastolic pressure point, a systolic pressure point, the dicrotic point, and one or more resonance points, each one of which occurs in an instant of time wherein a second derivative d2P/dt2 of the pressure signal P(t) has a local maximum, among which resonance points the point of diastolic peak, defined as the peak after the dicrotic point in the diastolic phase of each heart beat, is always present,
at least one of the one or more characteristic points of the pressure signal P(t) belonging to the systolic phase of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration and being different from the initial diastolic pressure point;C. for the heart beat associated with the processing window, determining an energy efficiency defined as a Result of the Energy ratio of the System (RES) through the following; C.1 determining a direct dynamic impedance Zd_D(t) for each one of said one or more characteristic points belonging to the systolic phase of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration and different from the initial diastolic pressure point, said direct dynamic impedance Zd_D(t) being equal to the ratio between a value of the pressure signal P(t) at the characteristic point and interval of time from the respective initial instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, and determining an impedance ZD of a direct wave of pressure by summing with alternate signs the values of the direct dynamic impedances Zd_D(t) ordered according to a first sequence, wherein said first sequence goes from the initial instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration until the instant of time of the dicrotic point, beginning to apply a positive sign to the direct dynamic impedance Zd_D(t) that is the first one in the first sequence; C.2 determining a reflected dynamic impedance Zd_R(t) for each one of said one or more characteristic points, said reflected dynamic impedance Zd_R(t) being equal to the ratio between a value of the pressure signal P(t) at the characteristic point and the interval of time between the respective instant of time of that characteristic point and the final instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, and determining an impedance ZR of reflected waves of pressure by summing with alternate signs the values of the reflected dynamic impedances Zd_R(t) ordered according to a second sequence, wherein said second sequence goes from a final instant of time until the initial instant of time of the heart beat associated to said processing window under consideration, beginning to apply a positive sign to the reflected dynamic impedance Zd_R(t) that is the first one in the second sequence; C.3 determining said energy efficiency RES as ratio between the impedance ZD of the direct wave and the impedance ZR of the reflected waves;
RES=ZD/ZRD. for said energy efficiency RES determined in step C, checking whether a first derivative dP/dt of the pressure signal P(t) is lower than a first predetermined value Td of maximum threshold in the whole heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration and whether the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the pressure signal P(t) is lower than a second predetermined value Td2 of maximum threshold in the whole heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, and in the case where the checking yields at least one of, (1) an outcome that dP/dt of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is not lower than a first predetermined value Td and (2) an outcome that the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is not lower than a second redetermined value Td2 performing step E, otherwise, in the case where the checking yields an outcome that dP/dt of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is lower than a first predetermined value Td and the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is lower than a second predetermined value Td2, performing step F; E. selecting a cutoff frequency of a low-pass filter on the basis of said energy efficiency RES determined in step C, and also on the basis of the first derivative dP/dt and the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the pressure signal P(t), and applying said low-pass filter to the pressure signal P(t), thus obtaining a new sampled pressure signal, and returning to execute the preceding steps starting from step B; F. outputting the pressure signal P(t) on which step B has been performed most recently, and if said sampled pressure signal P(t) comprises one or more heart beats which have not been analyzed yet, shifting the processing window on the next heart beat of the sampled pressure signal P(t) and returning to execute the preceding steps starting from step B, otherwise making the method come to an end, and wherein steps B to F are executed by the processor.
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18. A non-transitory computer-readable memory medium, having a program stored therein, wherein the program is configured to perform, when operating on a microprocessor, the following steps of an automatic method for dynamically measuring and processing blood pressure:
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A. detecting, based on pressure detectors, a sampled pressure signal P(t) for one or more heart beats, each heart beat starting at an initial instant of time coinciding with an initial diastolic pressure point and ending at a final instant of time coinciding with a subsequent diastolic pressure point and comprising a dicrotic point, each beat having a systolic phase going from the initial diastolic pressure point to the dicrotic point; and
associating by way of a processor, a processing window to a portion of the sampled pressure signal P(t) corresponding to a heart beat;B. automatically analyzing and discriminating morphology of the sampled pressure signal P(t) for the heart beat associated with the processing window, determining a first derivative dP/dt and a second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t), and determining an instant of time and pressure value of one or more characteristic points of the sampled pressure signal P(t) selected from the group comprising the initial diastolic pressure point, a systolic pressure point, the dicrotic point, and one or more resonance points, each one of which occurs in an instant of time wherein a second derivative d2P/dt2 of the pressure signal P(t) has a local maximum,
at least one characteristic point of the sampled pressure signal P(t) belonging to the systolic phase of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration and being different from the initial diastolic pressure point;C. for the heart beat associated with the processing window, determining an energy efficiency defined as a Result of the Energy ratio of the System (RES) through the following sub-steps; C.1 determining a direct dynamic impedance Zd_D(t) for each one of said one or more characteristic points belonging to the systolic phase of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration and different from the initial diastolic pressure point, said direct dynamic impedance Zd_D(t) being equal to the ratio between a value of the sampled pressure signal P(t) at the characteristic point and interval of time between the respective instant of time and the initial instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, and determining an impedance ZD of a direct wave of pressure by summing with alternate signs the values of the direct dynamic impedances Zd_D(t) ordered according to a first sequence, wherein the first sequence goes from the initial instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration until the instant of time of the dicrotic point, beginning to apply a positive sign to the direct dynamic impedance Zd_D(t) that is a first one in the first sequence; C.2 determining a reflected dynamic impedance Zd_R(t) for each one of said one or more characteristic points, said reflected dynamic impedance Zd_R(t) being equal to the ratio between a value of the sampled pressure signal P(t) at the characteristic point and the interval of time between the respective instant of time of that characteristic point and the final instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, and determining an impedance ZR of reflected waves of pressure by summing with alternate signs the values of the reflected dynamic impedances Zd_R(t) ordered according to a second sequence,
wherein said second sequence goes from the final instant of time until the initial instant of time of the heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, beginning to apply a positive sign to the reflected dynamic impedance Zd_R(t) that is the first one in the second sequence;C.3 determining said energy efficiency RES as a ratio between the impedance ZD of the direct wave and the impedance ZR of the reflected waves;
RES=ZD/ZRD. for said energy efficiency RES determined in step C, checking whether a first derivative dP/dt of the pressure signal P(t) is lower than a first predetermined value Td of maximum threshold in the whole heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration and whether the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the pressure signal P(t) is lower than a second predetermined value Td2 of maximum threshold in the whole heart beat associated with the processing window under consideration, and in the case where the checking yields at least one of, (1) an outcome that dP/dt of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is not lower than a first predetermined value Td and (2) an outcome that the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is not lower than a second predetermined value Td2 performing step E, otherwise, in the case where the checking yields an outcome that dP/dt of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is lower than a first predetermined value Td and the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t) is lower than a second predetermined value Td2, performing step F; E. selecting a cutoff frequency of a low-pass filter on the basis of said energy efficiency RES determined in step C, and also on the basis of the first derivative dP/dt and the second derivative d2P/dt2 of the sampled pressure signal P(t), and applying said low-pass filter to the pressure signal P(t), thus obtaining a new sampled pressure signal, and returning to execute the preceding steps starting from step B; F. outputting the sampled pressure signal P(t) on which step B has been performed most recently, and if the sampled pressure signal P(t) comprises one or more heart beats which have not been analyzed yet, shifting said processing window on the next heart beat of the sampled pressure signal P(t) and returning to execute the preceding steps starting from step B, otherwise making the method come to an end, wherein steps B to F are executed by the processor.
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Current AssigneeSalvatore Romano
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Original AssigneeSalvatore Romano
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InventorsRomano, Salvatore
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Primary Examiner(s)Jang, Christian
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Assistant Examiner(s)Toth, Karen
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Application NumberUS15/365,804Publication NumberTime in Patent Office881 DaysField of SearchNoneUS Class CurrentCPC Class CodesA61B 5/02108 from analysis of pulse wave...A61B 5/02125 of pulse wave propagation timeA61B 5/0215 by means inserted into the ...A61B 5/7239 using differentiation inclu...A61B 5/725 using specific filters ther...A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5...
