Telemedical System for Monitoring of Blood Pressure

It is increasingly clear that the traditional way of measuring blood pressure in the clinic or office frequently produces numbers that grossly overestimate a patient’s true blood pressure level. This effect is often caused by so called „white coat“ syndrome. Nowadays, for this reason it becomes more...

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Main Authors: Vratislav Fabian, Marcela Fejtova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: VSB-Technical University of Ostrava 2005-01-01
Series:Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Online Access:http://advances.utc.sk/index.php/AEEE/article/view/241
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Summary:It is increasingly clear that the traditional way of measuring blood pressure in the clinic or office frequently produces numbers that grossly overestimate a patient’s true blood pressure level. This effect is often caused by so called „white coat“ syndrome. Nowadays, for this reason it becomes more popular so called home monitoring of blood pressure, that attenuates this effect. In the paper, there is described specially telemedicine system for monitoring of blood pressure. The system consists of blood monitor equipment which automatically reports results of up-to-date patient’s measurements to the doctor’s monitoring and decision support (MDS) system using wireless communication. The MDS system can make an evaluation for the doctor who can immediately intervene if necessary. Introduction of such a system in practice can bring considerable improvement in the treatment of hypertension.
ISSN:1336-1376
1804-3119