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Twenty-one years ago, in 1967, Docent dr Jan Peñáz submitted a patent description of a method to measure indirectly the full arterial pressure waveform in a finger using a volume clamp technique, and at the 10th Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering at Dresden in 1973 (9), he actually demonstrated a device and published a one-page abstract on his new, important invention. In 1976 a small group of medical physicists of the TNO organization in The Netherlands began an R and D effort, first to copy the Peñáz device on the basis of his 1973 abstract, then to understand the physics and physiology of the method, and finally to construct a fully automatic device which could be used reliably and with confidence in the clinic.
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Wesseling, K.H. (1990). Finapres, continuous noninvasive finger arterial pressure based on the method of Peñáz. In: Meyer-Sabellek, W., Gotzen, R., Anlauf, M., Steinfeld, L. (eds) Blood Pressure Measurements. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72423-7_18
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