Nearly 119.9 million adults in the US suffer from hypertension, requiring frequent blood pressure measurements. The modern blood pressure cuff has lacked developments since its introduction. It remains a bulky design requiring high pressures and long times to achieve accurate readings. A slimmer cuff has been developed, but when tested on human subjects, has been unable to produce accurate readings compared to traditional cuffs. To help streamline the testing and advancement of the slimmer cuff technology, this project aims to design, fabricate, and validate an anatomically and physiologically representative arm simulator to enable mechanistic investigation of the cuff size effect on blood pressure measurement. The simulator consists of a tissue mimicking model, a controllable blood pressure source, and a blood pressure data acquisition system. The team developed and tested a series of designs and provided recommendations for future improvements to the system.

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Creator

• Haroutunian, Michael
• Zauha, Anna
• Simantirakis, Matheos

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 121554
• E-project-042424-160503

Advisor

• Zheng, Yihao
• Zhang, Ziming

Year

• 2024

Date created

• 2024-04-24

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Robotics Engineering

Source

• E-project-042424-160503

Rights statement

• In Copyright