Patent ID: 7438687

Claim:
A system for obtaining a measurement of a patient's blood pressure comprising: A) sensing-recording means for attachment to the patient including a memory, sensing means for measuring a predetermined physiological parameter, and means for storing time-stamped samples of the predetermined physiological parameter in said memory as a first data set, and B) a probe for being applied with an application pressure to a measurement site remote from the site of said sensing-recording means, said probe including: i) means for generating a signal representing a pulse wave form at the measurement site, ii) a probe memory, iii) means for storing times-stamped samples of the signal in said probe memory as a second data set, iv) means for retrieving the time-stamped samples from said memory in said sensing-recording means, v) means for correlating the measurement times for the first and second data sets, vi) means for generating a representation of the patient's blood pressure based upon the information in said correlated, time-stamped data sets.