Patent ID: 7862514

Claim:
A method for determining blood pressure in an artery of a vertebrate at a diastolic point and at a systolic point using an inflatable pressure cuff disposed about a limb of the vertebrate and connected to an inflation device and a pressure sensor through a single conduit having a distal end in fluid communication with said cuff and a proximal end in fluid communication with said inflation device and in pneumatic communication with said pressure sensor, comprising the steps of: inflating said cuff by passing a flow of an inflation fluid through said single conduit; sensing fluid pressure within the proximal end of said conduit at the diastolic point and at the systolic point; determining a pressure differential between said cuff and said pressure sensor at the diastolic point and a pressure differential between said cuff and said pressure sensor at the systolic point; and correcting, using a microprocessor, the sensed pressure at the diastolic point using the pressure differential at the diastolic point and correcting the sensed pressure at the systolic point for the pressure differential at the systolic point.