Continuous blood pressure measurement by using the pulse transit time: comparison to a cuff-based method

Barschdorff D, Erig M (1998) [Continuous blood pressure monitoring during stress ECG] Kontinuierliche Blutdruckbestimmung wahrend des Belastungs-EKG. Biomed Tech (Berl) 43:34–39

Bartsch S, Ostojic D, Schmalgemeier H, Bitter T, Westerheide N, Eckert S, Horstkotte D, Oldenburg O (2010) Validation of continuous blood pressure measurements by pulse transit time: a comparison with invasive measurements in a cardiac intensive care unit. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 135:2406–2412

Bland JM, Altman DG (1986) Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1:307–310

Bland JM, Altman DG (1995) Calculating correlation coefficients with repeated observations: part 2—Correlation between subjects. BMJ 310:633

Brown MA, Reiter L, Smith B, Buddle ML, Morris R, Whitworth JA (1994) Measuring blood pressure in pregnant women: a comparison of direct and indirect methods. Am J Obstet Gynecol 171:661–667

Callaghan FJ, Babbs CF, Bourland JD, Geddes LA (1984) The relationship between arterial pulse-wave velocity and pulse frequency at different pressures. J Med Eng Technol 8:15–18

Campbell NR, Chockalingam A, Fodor JG, McKay DW (1990) Accurate, reproducible measurement of blood pressure. CMAJ 143:19–24

Chen W, Kobayashi T, Ichikawa S, Takeuchi Y, Togawa T (2000) Continuous estimation of systolic blood pressure using the pulse arrival time and intermittent calibration. Med Biol Eng Comput 38:569–574

Chen Y, Wen C, Tao G, Bi M, Li G (2009) Continuous and noninvasive blood pressure measurement: a novel modeling methodology of the relationship between blood pressure and pulse wave velocity. Ann Biomed Eng 37:2222–2233

Davies JI, Struthers AD (2003) Pulse wave analysis and pulse wave velocity: a critical review of their strengths and weaknesses. J Hypertens 21:463–472

Eckert S, Horstkotte D (2002) Comparison of Portapres non-invasive blood pressure measurement in the finger with intra-aortic pressure measurement during incremental bicycle exercise. Blood Press Monit 7:179–183

Foo JY, Lim CS (2006) Pulse transit time as an indirect marker for variations in cardiovascular related reactivity. Technol Health Care 14:97–108

Geddes LA, Voelz M, James S, Reiner D (1981) Pulse arrival time as a method of obtaining systolic and diastolic blood pressure indirectly. Med Biol Eng Comput 19:671–672

Hopkins WG (2004) Bias in Bland–Altman but not regression validity analyses. Sportscience 8:42–46

Imholz BP, Wieling W, van Montfrans GA, Wesseling KH (1998) Fifteen years experience with finger arterial pressure monitoring: assessment of the technology. Cardiovasc Res 38:605–616

Kermode JL, Davis NJ, Thompson WR (1989) Comparison of the Finapres blood pressure monitor with intra-arterial manometry during induction of anaesthesia. Anaesth Intensive Care 17:470–475

Kugler J, Rollnik J, Schmitz N (1997) Retest-reliability and convergent validity of noninvasive blood pressure determination: arm sphygmomanometry vs. Penaz-method. Int J Clin Monit Comput 14:251–254

Mitchell GF, Parise H, Benjamin EJ, Larson MG, Keyes MJ, Vita JA, Vasan RS, Levy D (2004) Changes in arterial stiffness and wave reflection with advancing age in healthy men and women: the Framingham Heart Study. Hypertension 43:1239–1245

Molhoek GP, Wesseling KH, Settels JJ, van Vollenhoven E, Weeda HW, de Wit B, Arntzenius AC (1984) Evaluation of the Penaz servo-plethysmo-manometer for the continuous, non-invasive measurement of finger blood pressure. Basic Res Cardiol 79:598–609

Muehlsteff J, Aubert XL, Schuett M (2006) Cuffless estimation of systolic blood pressure for short effort bicycle tests: the prominent role of the pre-ejection period. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 1:5088–5092

Nygaard HA (2008) Measuring body mass index (BMI) in nursing home residents: the usefulness of measurement of arm span. Scand J Prim Health Care 26:46–49

Ochiai R, Takeda J, Hosaka H, Sugo Y, Tanaka R, Soma T (1999) The relationship between modified pulse wave transit time and cardiovascular changes in isoflurane anesthetized dogs. J Clin Monit Comput 15:493–501

Payne RA, Symeonides CN, Webb DJ, Maxwell SR (2006) Pulse transit time measured from the ECG: an unreliable marker of beat-to-beat blood pressure. J Appl Physiol 100:136–141

Pruett JD, Bourland JD, Geddes LA (1988) Measurement of pulse-wave velocity using a beat-sampling technique. Ann Biomed Eng 16:341–347

R Development Core Team (2010) R foundation for statistical computing, Wien, Austria. http://www.R-project.org

Rebenson-Piano M, Holm K, Powers M (1987) An examination of the differences that occur between direct and indirect blood pressure measurement. Heart Lung 16:285–294

Schiffrin EL (2004) Vascular stiffening and arterial compliance. Implications for systolic blood pressure. Am J Hypertens 17:39S–48S

Turjanmaa V (1989) Determination of blood pressure level and changes in physiological situations: comparison of the standard cuff method with direct intra-arterial recording. Clin Physiol 9:373–387

Van Bergen FH, Weatherhead DS, Treloar AE, Dobkin AB, Buckley JJ (1954) Comparison of indirect and direct methods of measuring arterial blood pressure. Circulation 10:481–490

Versluis RG, Petri H, van de Ven CM, Scholtes AB, Broerse ER, Springer MP, Papapoulos SE (1999) Usefulness of armspan and height comparison in detecting vertebral deformities in women. Osteoporos Int 9:129–133

Wippermann CF, Schranz D, Huth RG (1995) Evaluation of the pulse wave arrival time as a marker for blood pressure changes in critically ill infants and children. J Clin Monit 11:324–328

Yamashina A, Tomiyama H, Arai T, Koji Y, Yambe M, Motobe H, Glunizia Z, Yamamoto Y, Hori S (2003) Nomogram of the relation of brachial–ankle pulse wave velocity with blood pressure. Hypertens Res 26:801–806

Zheng D, Murray A (2009) Non-invasive quantification of peripheral arterial volume distensibility and its non-linear relationship with arterial pressure. J Biomech 42:1032–1037