Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Jens Mühlsteff

Kiran Hamilton J Dellimore

Erik Bresch

Teun Van Den Heuvel

Lars Schmitt

Dieter Woehrle

Louis Nicolas Atallah

Marcel Cornelis Dirkes

Method of operating a non-invasive blood pressure, NIBP, monitor to measure the blood pressure of a subject, the NIBP monitor comprising a cuff, a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure in the cuff and for outputting a pressure signal representing the pressure in the cuff and a physiological parameter sensor, the method comprising obtaining a first measurement of pulse rate or heart rate for the subject during inflation of the cuff, the first measurement being obtained from the pressure signal; obtaining a second measurement of the pulse rate or heart rate for the subject during inflation of the cuff, the second measurement being obtained from the physiological parameter sensor; comparing the first measurement and the second measurement; and estimating the reliability of a blood pressure measurement obtained by the NIBP monitor during inflation of the cuff based on the result of the step of comparing.

Non-invasive blood pressure monitors, methods and computer program product of operating the same

A device and method for monitoring pain of a user () are presented. The device () comprises a receiving unit () for receiving an accelerometer signal () from an accelerometer sensor () worn by the user (), wherein the accelerometer signal () comprises components of a pulse signal () and a respiration signal (); and a processing unit () configured to: derive the pulse signal () and the respiration signal () from the accelerometer signal (); adapt the pulse signal () based on the respiration signal () in order to obtain a corrected pulse signal (); and derive a pain descriptor based on the corrected pulse signal ().

Wearable pain monitor using accelerometry

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Aachen, Germany

Jens Mühlsteff