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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
John W. Booth, Tampa, FL (US);
Bruce A. Friedman, Tampa, FL (US);
Assignee:
GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, Inc., Milwaukee, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 ;
Abstract
Blood pressure of an human being is read by a process that places a cuff around a portion of the human being's body. The cuff is inflated to a predefined pressure which occludes the flood of blood and then the cuff is deflated in a controlled manner. At a plurality of deflation pressure levels, pressure pulses that occur in the cuff are integrated to produce a plurality of integral values. A diastolic pressure of the human being is derived in response to the deflation pressure level at which occurred the integral value that is greatest in magnitude.