Our Solution – A summary of AL’S PAL

The above image is a drawing of what the device would look like. In the device, the three pads form the triangulation needed to find various figures (left), and wirelessly transfer that data to a computer, which will adjust the blood pressure due to any changes in height, and then graphically return the actual person’s blood pressure (right).

Current methods of adjusting the transducer due to change in the patient’s height require constant re-leveling and re-adjustment of arterial line transducers during surgery or normal procedures. The solution to this is to use triangulation to calculate the pressure change using Bernoulli’s equation as a function of the change in the phlebostatic axis. As a result, this will eliminate the need for a manual adjustment of the transducer.