Real-time blood pressure monitoring in physiological experiments using an Apple II microcomputer.
The paper describes a program used for real-time blood pressure monitoring. A simple method allowing interactive control of the decision criteria is used for upstroke detection. The blood pressure signal is characterized by means of 8 parameters, computed for every cycle. The program offers two graphic modes: plotting (a) the original signal and (b) the computed variables. Other useful programs are presented together with the BP/MONITOR to allow use of the Apple II as a digital memory scope in different working modes.
D000818:Animals; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods*; D003201:Computers; D008838:Microcomputers; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D012984:Software