Evaluation of the Accuracy of Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurement Devices: Challenges and Proposals.

ABSTRACT: Several novel cuffless wearable devices and smartphone applications claiming that they can measure blood pressure (BP) are appearing on the market. These technologies are very attractive and promising, with increasing interest among health care professionals for their potential use. Moreover, they are becoming popular among patients with hypertension and healthy people. However, at the present time, there are serious issues about BP measurement accuracy of cuffless devices and the 2021 European Society of Hypertension Guidelines on BP measurement do not recommend them for clinical use. Cuffless devices have special validation issues, which have been recently recognized. It is important to note that the 2018 Universal Standard for the validation of automated BP measurement devices developed

SUBMITTER: Mukkamala R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8516718 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature