System and method for accurately monitoring the cardiovascular state of a living subject
First Claim
1. A blood-pressure measurement system, comprising:
- an oscillometric pulse-wave detection device that detects oscillometric pressure pulse waves produced by a cardiac muscle of a living subject during an oscillometric-blood-pressure measurement, the oscillometric pressure pulse waves propagating through an artery of the living subject;
an arrhythmia-pulse correcting circuit that identifies abnormal oscillometric pressure pulse waves and corrects the amplitudes of oscillometric pressure pulse waves produced by arrhythmias; and
a blood-pressure measuring circuit that measures a blood pressure of the living subject based on amplitudes of the oscillometric pressure pulse waves detected by the oscillometric pulse-wave detection device and on the corrected amplitudes of oscillometric pressure pulse waves produced by arrythmias.
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Abstract
A blood-pressure measurement system accurately monitors a living subject'"'"'s cardiovascular state, even if the living subject'"'"'s blood pressure changes during a measurement, the living subject exhibits frequent arrhythmias, or motion artifacts are present during the blood-pressure measurement. The blood-pressure measurement system of this invention provides an arrhythmia-pulse correcting circuit that corrects the amplitudes of oscillometric pulses produced by arrhythmias. An oscillometric-systolic-pressure correcting circuit corrects the measured systolic oscillometric blood pressure when a living subject'"'"'s blood pressure is changing during the oscillometric blood-pressure measurement. A quality-assurance and data-checking circuit determines the reliability of the oscillometric blood-pressure values, determines the cause of problems in the blood-pressure measurement process, alerts a user if a reliable oscillometric blood-pressure measurement cannot be obtained and performs user-specified living subject evaluation checks.
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48 Claims
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1. A blood-pressure measurement system, comprising:
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an oscillometric pulse-wave detection device that detects oscillometric pressure pulse waves produced by a cardiac muscle of a living subject during an oscillometric-blood-pressure measurement, the oscillometric pressure pulse waves propagating through an artery of the living subject; an arrhythmia-pulse correcting circuit that identifies abnormal oscillometric pressure pulse waves and corrects the amplitudes of oscillometric pressure pulse waves produced by arrhythmias; and a blood-pressure measuring circuit that measures a blood pressure of the living subject based on amplitudes of the oscillometric pressure pulse waves detected by the oscillometric pulse-wave detection device and on the corrected amplitudes of oscillometric pressure pulse waves produced by arrythmias. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A blood-pressure measurement system, comprising:
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an oscillometric pulse-wave detection device that detects oscillometric pressure pulse waves produced by a cardiac muscle of a living subject during an oscillometric-blood-pressure measurement, the oscillometric pressure pulse waves propagating through an artery of the living subject; an arrhythmia-pulse correcting circuit that identifies abnormal oscillometric pressure pulse waves and corrects the amplitudes of oscillometric pressure pulse waves produced by arrhythmias; a blood-pressure measuring circuit that measures at least a systolic blood pressure and a diastolic blood pressure of the living subject based on amplitudes of the oscillometric pressure pulse waves detected by the oscillometric pulse-wave detection device and on the corrected amplitudes of oscillometric pressure pulse waves produced by arrythmias; a first pulse-wave detection device that detects first pulse waves from a first portion of the living subject; a second pulse-wave detection device that detects second pulse waves from a second portion of the living subject; a pulse-wave-propagation information obtaining circuit that determines time differences between predetermined periodic points on pulse waves detected by the first pulse-wave detection device and predetermined periodic points on corresponding pulse waves detected by the second pulse-wave detection device; a blood-pressure/pulse-wave-propagation-information relationship determining circuit that determines a relationship between the time differences determined by the pulse-wave-propagation information obtaining circuit and a blood pressure of the living subject; an estimated-blood-pressure determining circuit that successively determines an estimated blood pressure based on the relationship determined by the blood-pressure/pulse-wave-propagation-information relationship determining circuit; an oscillometric-systolic-pressure correcting circuit that corrects a systolic blood pressure measured by the blood-pressure measuring circuit when the living subject'"'"'s blood pressure changes during an oscillometric-blood-pressure measurement; a blood-pressure-measurement starting circuit that determines whether each of an estimated blood pressure, a pulse-wave area and a pulse period is normal or abnormal, the blood-pressure-measurement starting circuit initiating a new oscillometric-blood-pressure measurement when at least one of the estimated blood pressure, the pulse-wave area and the pulse period is determined to be abnormal; and a quality-assurance and data checking circuit that determines a quality of blood-pressure measurement data based on predetermined quality-assurance rules and criteria, the quality-assurance and data checking circuit initiating a new oscillometric-blood-pressure measurement if the quality of the blood-pressure measurement data is below a predetermined threshold. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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