CENTRAL BP MEASUREMENT AND VALIDATION: THE ENGINEER’S POINT OF VIEW

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Abstract

The non-invasive assessment of aortic (central) pressure evolved as an emerging clinical research area over the last two decades. Several non-invasive methods and devices were developed to support these investigations. A variety of technical approaches and sites of peripheral signal acquisition have been established to non-invasively estimate aortic pressure, but interchangeability of results was limited due to the lack of standardization. To overcome this threatening situation, an ARTERY Society task force was set up to provide a consensus document with recommendations regarding appropriate protocols to assess and report the evaluation of accuracy of devices measuring aortic pressure.

This presentation aims to provide background information about the genesis of the actual ARTERY consensus document and discusses resulting strengths and opportunities. Furthermore, it reviews the document from an engineering viewpoint, focusing on several novel and strong statements that have been proposed in the published consensus document, e.g. for the first time ever invasive (preferably solid state) catheter measurements as the sole reference (gold) standard for comparison have been defined. Amongst other relevant topics, particular focus is brought to issues of waveform calibration and subsequent effects leading to differences between measures of brachial and aortic pressures.

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Siegfried Wassertheurer
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/12/06
TI  - CENTRAL BP MEASUREMENT AND VALIDATION: THE ENGINEER’S POINT OF VIEW
JO  - Artery Research
SP  - 46
EP  - 46
VL  - 20
IS  - C
SN  - 1876-4401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artres.2017.10.010
DO  - 10.1016/j.artres.2017.10.010
ID  - Wassertheurer2017
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