An Optical System for Measuring Blood Pressure

Clalit Health Services

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Blood Pressure Disorders

Treatments: Device: Blood pressure measurement; Device: Blood pressure measurement with the new device

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03042949

0265-16-MMC

Details and patient eligibility

About

An assesment of an optical system that measures blood pressure on the finger -Elfor 1 device. The system is based on a small optical sensor that emits coherent light into the skin and collects the reflected light from the red blood cells in the blood vessels in the skin under the sensor. The sensor is able to detect the pulse wave and blood pressure can be measured.

The investigators plan to measure blood pressure with the new sensor in patients who are attending the Hypertension Clinic at Meir Hospital or are undergoing hemodialysis to validate the sensor.

Full description

If the blood flow is temporarily interrupted by inflating a small pneumatic cuff at the root of the finger, blood flow is occluded and the pulse wave disappears. As the pressure in the cuff is released, blood flow returns, the pulse wave is again detected and blood pressure can be measured. This apparatus is easy to use and will allow simplified monitoring of blood pressure contains the laser source and optical sensors that measure the reflected light.

The investigators proposed to validate the sensor by measuring the blood pressure in patients with this optical sensor and also by standard plethysmography. The investigators plan to measure participants with low, normal and high blood pressure in order to assess the accuracy and reliability of the new device.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients on hemodialysis or visiting the hypertension outpatient clinic at Meir Medical Hospital.

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Device Feasibility

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Blood pressure measurement

Experimental group

Description:

Patients requiring blood pressure measurement will have their blood pressure measured in the standard manner by plethysmography, and then with the Elfor -1 device , the new optical sensor, in order to determine the performance of the new sensor.

Treatment:

Device: Blood pressure measurement

Device: Blood pressure measurement with the new device