Force Plate Monitoring of Human Hemodynamics

TL;DR

This paper presents a noninvasive method using force plate measurements to monitor human hemodynamics, capturing cardiac motion and pulse wave propagation, and validating it against invasive catheterization data.

Contribution

The study introduces a novel noninvasive approach to monitor heart and blood vessel dynamics using force plate recoils, validated against invasive measurements.

Findings

Force plate method accurately detects heart motion timings.

Pulse wave propagation can be noninvasively tracked.

Method correlates well with invasive catheterization data.

Abstract

We show that the recoils of the body caused by cardiac motion and blood circulation provide a noninvasive method capable to display the motions of the heart muscle and the propagation of the pulse wave along aorta and its branches. The results are compared with the data obtained invasively during a heart catheterization. We show that the described noninvasive method is able to determine the moment of a particular heart movement or the time when the pulse wave reaches certain morphological structure.