This non-provisional application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(a) on Patent Application No(s). 099133263 filed in Taiwan, R.O.C. on Sep. 30, 2010, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
The present disclosure relates to a technique for measuring blood pressure, and more particularly, to a method and device for blood pressure measurement.
As illustrated in the automatic blood pressure monitor that is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,638,810 by Citron, Inc., a fixed coefficient method is developed for locating and registering a measure of the peak amplitudes of the successively encountered blood flow (oscillatory complex) pulses stored in memory while multiplying the registered peak amplitudes respectively with fixed coefficients so as to be used for determining a subject's systolic and diastolic pressures. Nevertheless, it is noted that the use of the aforesaid fixed coefficient method can cause the probability of the sphygmomanometer's erroneous judgment to increase, as can be inferred from the disclosure of U.S. Pat. No. 4,638,810.
Moreover, as illustrated in the electronic blood pressure measuring instrument that is disclosed in EP 0642,760A1 by Osachi Co. Ltd., not only the blood pressures of the subject can be obtained, but also detection of several diseases can be reliably obtained according to a pattern classification performed upon the oscillating pulse wave detected by the electronic blood pressure measuring instrument, as can be inferred from the disclosure of EP 0642,760A1. However, it is also indicated in the disclosure that since the pulse wave relating to the blood pressure is very much subjected to the influence of the test subject's health condition, an accurate blood pressure determination might be very difficult to achieve, but there is no solution provided in the referring disclosure.
In addition, as illustrated in the electronic blood pressure monitor that is disclosed in CN 1449718A by Omron Co., the systolic pressure of a subject can be estimated according to parameters of pulse wave features, cuff pressures and probability density of pressure values during a pressurizing process while allowing an initial release pressure to be defined as the estimated systolic pressure adding a specific pressure value, as can be inferred from the disclosure of CN 1449718A. However, since the pressuring process prior to the obtaining of blood pressure can only last for a short period of time, accurate blood pressure measurement is hard to achieve.
Furthermore, as illustrated in the electronic blood pressure monitor that is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,719,703 by VSM Medtech Ltd., a signal envelop is processed for obtaining a maximum blood pressure value while calculating a systolic pressure using the following formulas, as can be inferred from the disclosure of U.S. Pat. No. 6,719,703, which are:
However, although the measurement of the aforesaid electronic blood pressure monitor is not performed by the used of the fixed coefficient method, it didn't take the personal information, including body mass index (BMI), medical history and age, into consideration, but only focus on how to achieve an accurate measurement within a high pressure range.
Therefore, it is in need of a method and device for blood pressure measurement capable of overcoming the foregoing shortcomings.
The object of the present disclosure is to provide a method and device capable of performing a personal blood pressure measurement accurately.
To achieve the above object, the present disclosure provides a device for blood pressure measurement, comprising: a display unit, for displaying options to be selected by a user; an input unit, provided for the user to selectively input a personal health information or to proceed directly to perform a blood pressure measuring process; an inflation unit; a microprocessor; a cuff; an deflation valve; a pressure sensor; a signal processing unit; and a data processing unit; wherein, the microprocessor is enabled to issue a command for directing the inflation unit to inflate the cuff to a specific pressure, and then the cuff pressure is deflacted by the deflaction valve; and during the pressure deflation, the pressure sensor is enabled to register a pressure signal while feeding the pressure signal to the signal processing unit where it is processed into a data conforming to a format recognizable and usable by posterior calculation processes.
Further scope of applicability of the present application will become more apparent from the detailed description given hereinafter. However, it should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating exemplary embodiments of the disclosure, are given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the disclosure will become apparent to those skilled in the art from this detailed description.
The present disclosure will become more fully understood from the detailed description given herein below and the accompanying drawings which are given by way of illustration only, and thus are not limitative of the present disclosure and wherein:
For your esteemed members of reviewing committee to further understand and recognize the fulfilled functions and structural characteristics of the disclosure, several exemplary embodiments cooperating with detailed description are presented as the follows.
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S1: being composed of two procedures, which are procedure S11 and procedure S12, and at S11, options displayed on the display unit 2 are provided to a user for determining whether to input a personal information or not? If yes, then the flow proceeds to the procedure S12 for inputting the personal information of a user including age, height, weight, and medical history; otherwise, the flow proceeds to step S2;
S2: enabling the microprocessor 4 to issue a command for directing the inflation unit 5 to inflate the cuff 6 to a specific pressure;
S3: stopping the inflation for allowing the cuff 6 to be exhausted by releasing air from the deflation valve 7, and during the exhausting of the cuff 6, enabling the pressure sensor 8 to register a pressure signal while feeding the pressure signal to the signal processing unit 9 where it is processed into a signal envelope conforming to a format recognizable and usable by post-calculation processes, and then transmitting the envelope to the microprocessor 4;
S4: enabling the microprocessor 4 to use the envelope in conjunction with the adaptive characteristic coefficients that are determined by the data processing unit 10 for obtaining a systolic pressure and a diastolic pressure of the user while displaying the two on the display unit 2.
It is noted that the flow chart illustrating the steps for determining the adaptive characteristic coefficients as well as the determination of the systolic pressure and the diastolic pressure thereafter is shown in
Moreover, the second mode is an intelligent adaptive (i-adaptive) mode, that is designed for defining the adaptive characteristic coefficient to be selected according to a personal information inputted by the user whereas the personal information can include the age, BMI and medical history of the user, in which the medical history further includes patient groups of normal, hypertension, diabetics, heart disease, blood-related disease and the like, while containing the distribution of characteristic coefficients with respective to more than two patient groups, as those shown in
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(A) Systolic pressure:
A
s
=F
ev(t1)*Crs;
wherein,
(1) if there is no personal information inputted, then
C
rs
=a
s
−b
s*max(Fcuff);
(2) if there is an age information being inputted, then
C
rs
=c
s
+d
s
/x−e
s
/x
2
, x: age;
(3) if there is an information relating to height and weight being inputted, then
C
rs
=f
s
−g
s
*y+h
s
*y
2
−i
s
*y
3
y: weight/height2;
(4) if there is an information relating to medical history being inputted, then
Crs is ranged between 0.3 and 0.8 that is dependent upon the patient groups;
F
ev(ts)=As, and ts<t1;
ts is the time when the cuff pressure is equal to the systolic pressure;
(B) Diastolic pressure:
A
d
=F
ev(t1)*Crd;
wherein,
(5) if there is no personal information inputted, then
C
rd
=a
d
−b
d*max(Fcuff);
(6) if there is an age information being inputted, then
C
rd
=c
d
+d
d
/x−e
d
/x
2
, x: age;
(7) if there is an information relating to height and weight being inputted, then
C
rd
=f
d
−g
d
*y+h
d
*y
2
−i
d
*y
3
; y: weight/height2
(8) if there is an information relating to medical history being inputted, then
Crd is ranged between 0.35 and 0.85 that is dependent upon the patient groups;
F
ev(td)=Ad, and td>t1;
td is the time when the cuff pressure is equal to the diastolic pressure;
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With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by the present disclosure.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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099133263 | Sep 2010 | TW | national |