Intra-beat biomarker for accurate continuous non-invasive blood pressure monitoring

Accurate continuous non-invasive blood pressure (CNIBP) monitoring is the holy grail of digital medicine but remains elusive largely due to significant drifts in signal and motion artifacts that necessitate frequent device recalibration. To address these challenges, we developed a unique approach by...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2022-10, Vol.12 (1), p.16772-16772, Article 16772
Main Authors: Abiri, Arash, Chou, En-Fan, Qian, Chengyang, Rinehart, Joseph, Khine, Michelle
Format: Article
Language:English
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Acuity
Algorithms
Biomarkers
Blood pressure
Dithiothreitol
Humanities and Social Sciences
multidisciplinary
Pressure sensors
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Sensors
Signal processing
Stochasticity
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Summary:Accurate continuous non-invasive blood pressure (CNIBP) monitoring is the holy grail of digital medicine but remains elusive largely due to significant drifts in signal and motion artifacts that necessitate frequent device recalibration. To address these challenges, we developed a unique approach by creating a novel intra-beat biomarker (Diastolic Transit Time, DTT) to achieve highly accurate blood pressure (BP) estimations. We demonstrated our approach’s superior performance, compared to other common signal processing techniques, in eliminating stochastic baseline wander, while maintaining signal integrity and measurement accuracy, even during significant hemodynamic changes. We applied this new algorithm to BP data collected using non-invasive sensors from a diverse cohort of high acuity patients and demonstrated that we could achieve close agreement with the gold standard invasive arterial line BP measurements, for up to 20 min without recalibration. We established our approach's generalizability by successfully applying it to pulse waveforms obtained from various sensors, including photoplethysmography and capacitive-based pressure sensors. Our algorithm also maintained signal integrity, enabling reliable assessments of BP variability. Moreover, our algorithm demonstrated tolerance to both low- and high-frequency motion artifacts during abrupt hand movements and prolonged periods of walking. Thus, our approach shows promise in constituting a necessary advance and can be applied to a wide range of wearable sensors for CNIBP monitoring in the ambulatory and inpatient settings.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-022-19096-6