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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 1983
Filed:
Jul. 06, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles S Weaver, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Constance T Chittenden, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128680 ; 128682 ; 128683 ;
Abstract
Method and apparatus for recurrently obtaining systolic and diastolic blood pressure measurements, and measurements of the systolic slope of the blood pressure wave in a subject's artery are disclosed. Artifact information in Korotkov sound signals employed in the apparatus are substantially eliminated to avoid errors which otherwise normally are present in such measurements.