Long-term ambulatory blood pressure measurements are traditionally carried out with a cuff-based device. However, this method is prone to artifacts, especially during sleep as inflation of the cuff can disturb the patient´s sleep leading to false measurements. SOMNOmedics has recognized this and developed a non-invasive, reaction-less, continuous blood pressure measurement based on pulse transit time (PTT).
For cardiology, the SOMNOtouch NIBP is a powerful 5-in-1 device that determines blood pressure continuously, beat-to-beat, based on the pulse transit time.