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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Blood Press Monit. 2020 Apr;25(2):61–68. doi: 10.1097/MBP.0000000000000426

Table 1.

Characteristics of Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitors

Blood Pressure
Technology		 Mechanism
of
Measurement		 FDA / CE
Approval?		 Commercially
Available?		 Current
Use in
Clinical
Sleep
Practice?		 Validated? Validated Against? Validation
Setting
Finapres® (57) Volume-clamp Yes / Yes Yes No† Yes Continuous invasive intra-arterial catheter In-hospital floor patients
CNAP® (55, 71) Volume-clamp Yes / Yes Yes No Yes Continuous invasive intra-arterial catheter Surgical patients under general anesthesia
ClearSight (72, 73) Volume-clamp Yes / Yes Yes No Yes Continuous invasive intra-arterial catheter; Mercury sphygmomanometer Surgical patients under general anesthesia; Outpatient clinic
Beat By Beat® (74) Applanation tonometry Yes / Yes No No Yes Mercury sphygmomanometer Outpatient clinic
Sotera ViSi Mobile® (75) Pulse Transit Time Yes / Yes No No Yes Mercury sphygmomanometer In-hospital floor patients
SOMNOtouch™ (76) Pulse Transit Time Yes / Yes Yes Yes Yes Mercury sphygmomanometer Outpatient clinic
Caretaker® (63, 77) Pulse decomposition analysis Yes / Yes Yes No Yes Continuous invasive intra-arterial catheter Surgical patients under general anesthesia
†

Finapres technology has been used in a sleep research setting.