Abstract—The visualization of the arterial pulse waveform
has been a problem to clinical physicians because normally, the
medic has to imagine the pulse from palpation. But in this work
we provide a simple electronic device, designed and assembled
from elements such as operational amplifiers, resistances, and
commercial capacitors, among others. We use analogic filters
(active and passive), compensators, amplifiers, a common
fototransistor and a light emitting diode as sensor, which is in
contact with a human arterial pulse palpation site (wrist or
neck). In the results it is possible to see a clear signal from an
arterial pulse waveform in an oscilloscope screen. Finally,
remain in the future work to integrate a display to see the
waveform in other devices, also to perform arterial pulse
waveform semiology automatically.
Index Terms—Arterial pulse waveform, semiology,
operational amplifiers, electronic device.
Octavio Diaz-Hernandez is with the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de
Mexico, Departamento de Ingenieria Electrica Electronica, Facultad de
Estudios Superiores Aragon, Mexico City, Mexico (e-mail:
zidh@comunidad.unam.mx).
Livier Baez-Rivas is with Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
Departamento de Ingenieria en Sistemas Médicos, Facultad de Ingenieria,
Mexico City, Mexico (e-mail: livierb@gmail.com).
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Cite:Octavio Diaz-Hernandez and Livier Baez-Rivas, "Electronic Device for Arterial Pulse Waveform Semiology," International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 294-298, 2016.