A real time, wearable ECG and blood pressure monitoring system

Author

Marques, Fábio A Ferreira ; Ribeiro, David M D ; Colunas, Márcio F M ; Cunha, João P Silva

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Telecommun. & Inf., Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

fYear

2011

fDate

15-18 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a wearable medical device for Electrocardiogram (ECG) and blood pressure monitoring is presented. Its basis is a validated and certified existent medical device. This device was evolved in order to allow new physiological signal monitoring and real time assessment of blood pressure levels by adding a photoplethismography (PPG) probe and the incorporation of new algorithms in an online interface. The device presents accuracies of 94.6% for systolic blood pressure and 92.3% for systolic blood pressure when compared with reference values obtained from a commercial electronic Sphygmomanometer.

Keywords

biomedical communication; blood pressure measurement; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; photoplethysmography; physiology; real-time systems; wearable computers; PPG probe; blood pressure level; blood pressure monitoring system; electrocardiogram; electronic sphygmomanometer; online interface; photoplethismography; physiological signal monitoring; real time assessment; real time system; systolic blood pressure; wearable ECG; wearable medical device; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Calibration; Electrocardiography; Estimation; Monitoring; Real time systems; Blood Pressure; ECG; Online; PPG; Wearable;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2011 6th Iberian Conference on

Conference_Location

Chaves

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1487-0

Type

conf

Filename

5974220