Author: Václav Sedlák

EMPIR Research potential project for blood pressure measurements

Final publishable summary and publishable report

Our project has reached after 1279 days of duration its conclusion. All project deliverables were accepted & our final reports were submitted. You can find our final publishable summary and final publishable report below and on Euramet’s website. Developing an infrastructure for improved and harmonised metrological checks of blood-pressure measurements in Europe – EURAMET

Deliverable 8

We are happy to publish last of our deliverables. This deliverable focuses on the competence cetre establihed by our project and on individual strategies for internal partners for the long-term operation of this centre.

Deliverable 7

We are happy to publish seventh of our deliverables. This deliverable answers the question, if CMI is qualified to provide traceable measurements and calibration services for the aOSG and similar devices.

Deliverable 6

We finished & submited another project deliverable – Deliverable 6: White Paper on Smart specialisation concept to ensure a coordinated and optimised approach towards metrology for blood pressure measurements in Europe.

Deliverable 5

We are happy to publish fifth of our eight deliverables. This deliverable (again) focuses on uncertainty calculation of calibration of the aOSG and it answers the question if we reached the target uncetainty.

Deliverable 4

We are happy to publish 4th of our 8 technical deliverables. This deliverable focuses on model for uncertainty calculation of calibration of the aOSG.

Deliverable 3

We are happy to publish third technical deliverable. This one provides guidance on how to test sphygmomanometers with the aOSG.

Deliverable 2

We are happy to publish second of our eight technical deliverables. This one answers the question on how useful the aOSG can be in market surveillance and/or clinical trials. If you would like to know more about aOSG, click here to see Deliverable 1.

Deliverable 1

We finished & submited our first deliverable: Technical document on the development of the advanced oscillometric signal generator.

Second stakeholder workshop, September 27th 2022

An important step in achieving project goals is the dissemination of the project results to project stakeholders. To achieve this, we had the second stakeholder workshop on September 27th 2022. We presented our stakeholders and interested parties project results; furthermore we discussed problems and importance related to accurate blood pressure measurements. You can find our…
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Raising public awareness & use of project’s result

We performed an experimental evaluation of sphygmomanometer accuracy and repeatability using the aOSG. This consisted of testing 11 sphygmomanometers each tested with the same set of 85 real-life oscillometric signals. This gave us a unique opportunity to compare performance of the devices not only in terms of average error and standard deviation, but also by…
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Newsletter No. 2

To keep our stakeholders constantly updated on project development, decided to regularly create and distribute a newsletter. Second newsletter of our project was distributed at the in June 2022. Would you like to receive it as well? Subscribe here: Project adOSSIG: Newsletter.

M30 Publishable summary

Our project reached 30th month of its duration. On this occasion, we produced another publishable summary, which can be downloaded from here or Euramet’s website.

IMEKO 2021: 2 papers published

Consortium partners have submitter 2 papers to IMEKO XXIII World congress (IMEKO2021) . These are published in Measurement: Sensors. Physiology-based patient simulator for blood pressure meter testing https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measen.2021.100260 ABSTRACTNowadays, the accuracy of automated oscillometric non-invasive blood pressure meters is evaluated in hospitalsby means of clinical validations, in which the device’s measurements are compared to manually measured…
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First stakeholder workshop, September 2 2021

An important step in achieving project goals is the dissemination of the project results to project stakeholders. To achieve this, we had the first stakeholder workshop on September 2nd 2021. We presented our stakeholders and interested parties project result; furthermore we discussed problems and importance related to accurate blood pressure measurements and finally, we had…
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Newsletter No. 1

To keep our stakeholders constantly updated on project development, decided to regularly create and distribute a newsletter. First newsletter of our project was distributed at the beginning of July. Would you like to receive it as well? Subscribe here: Project adOSSIG: Newsletter.

List of state-of-the-art commercial simulators

One of activities in the development of the advanced oscillometric generator (aOSG) was the identification of commercially available simulators of oscillometric signals and, where possible, investigation of their strengths and weaknesses. 23 simulators from 11 producers were identified.The evaluation summarised in the table below was strictly done based on manufacturer specifications (from manuals where these…
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Raising broader public awareness

Gregor Geršak from the University of Ljubljana was interviewed in one of the largest Slovenian newspapers Nedeljski dnevnik (82 000 copies in a 2-million-people country). The topic was blood pressure measuring devices, clinical validations and simulators in general. The adOSSIG project was presented and some of its practical functionalities explained.

M18 Publishable summary

Our project is 18 months old and is doing well! On this occasion, we produced another publishable summary, which can be downloaded from here or Euramet’s website.

M9 Publishable summary

Second publishable summary of our project was published and it can be dowload either from here or EURAMET MSU webpage.