Concept of Personalised Biomedical Instrumentation; Case Study - Blood Pressure

− In this paper we are introducing the concept of personal instrumentation. Personal instrumentation stands for a measuring device, which includes also calculative algorithms and measuring methods and techniques, which along measuring of physiological parameters enable also collecting other types of data for a certain patient in a certain condition at a certain time. Therefore such devices would be a useful tool for the physician to better diagnostically evaluate the state the patient is in, and that in a holistic manner. The evaluation of the concept of personalised instrumentation is discussed in the field of non-invasive blood pressure measurements. The majority of nowadays home-use, GP and clinical practice non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) measurement devices use the oscillometric principle of measurement. In this paper we are discussing and describing an oscillometric device including also other forms of collecting data. Its aim is to produce correction factors, which would enable calculative corrections of the measured systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels to better suit the patient current status.