Use of a personal computer with an automatic noninvasive ambulatory blood pressure monitoring device

Abstract

Automatic ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is a valid and reliable tool for intermittent noninvasive assessment of blood pressure over a 24-hour period. However, reporting devices to retrieve data from the recording device are dedicated to one task and are expensive. Because of this, we have developed computer programs for a popular inexpensive microcomputer that retrieves data from the Del Mar Pressurometer III, an R-wave gated automatic ambulatory blood pressure monitoring device. Furthermore, the derived data may be edited, computed to derive statistics, stored, retrieved, displayed, and reported in both numerical and graphical format. This same hardware is used for multiple other tasks.