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A pilot application of Korotkoff sound delay time in evaluating cardiovascular status

Issue title: Papers from the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Technology (iCBEB 2014), 25–28 September 2014, Beijing, China

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Guest editors: Edward J. Ciaccio

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Xiang, Haiyan* | Liu, Yanyong | Qin, Yufei | Cao, Zhengtao | Guo, Tao | Yu, Mengsun

Affiliations: Aviation Medicine Engineering Centre, Institute of Aviation Medicine, Beijing, China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Haiyan Xiang, Aviation Medicine Engineering Centre, Institute of Aviation Medicine, 28#, Fucheng Road, Haidian, Beijing 100142, China. Tel.: +86 010 66927045; Fax: +86 010 68453059; E-mail:xianghaiyen@gmail.com

Keywords: Cardiovascular, noninvasive measurement, Korotkoff sound delay time, transmural pressure

DOI: 10.3233/THC-150978

Journal: Technology and Health Care, vol. 23, no. s2, pp. S419-S426, 2015

Published: 2015
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Korotkoff sounds have been used to measure systolic and diastolic arterial blood pressures noninvasively for over 100 years. However, most of the research concerning the Korotkoff sound were focused on the origin and frequency component analyzing the Korotkoff sound signal.

OBJECTIVE: To show that the occurrence time of the Korotkoff sounds for each cardiac cycle demonstrates a characteristic value during the cuff deflating process of blood pressure measurement.

METHODS: The Korotkoff sound delay time (KDT) decreases as the cuff pressure P deflates and KDT is a function of arterial transmural pressure. In the present research, an experiment system was established to explore the relationship between the KDT and the cuff pressure in different subjects.

RESULTS: A pilot experiment was conducted to obtain different subjects' KDTs and investigate the relationship between KDT and cuff pressure.

CONCLUSION: The relationship between KDT and invasive blood pressure was also studied and its potential application in detection of cardiovascular status was discussed.

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