Portapres® is a unique device that reliably accomplishes a challenging task of continuous and non-invasive recording ofblood pressure (BP) waveforms in moving subjects. The complex procedure of Portapres® signal acquisition includes periodic changesof cuffed fingers to avoid pain and stress, as well as the blood pressure correction due to the increasing and decreasing elevation of armposture. Due to these procedures, the recorded waveforms are corrupted. The aim of this paper is to analyze the influence of inevitableartifacts on parameters obtained from the blood pressure waveforms. The analyzed waveforms are obtained from healthy volunteers atBezanija Kosa Hospital, Belgrade. The parameters include systolic blood pressure (SBP) and pulse interval (PI) extracted byBeatscope® software. The interrelationship of SBP and PI signals forms a major cardiovascular feedback – baroreflex. It can beanalyzed using the sequence method for spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity, but the tools that reveal more profound dependencystructures include cross-approximate and cross-sample entropy, as well as the copula structures. The influence of artifacts, inevitable inPortapres® signals, is the main goal of this study. The analyses revealed that automatic artifact correction induced no significantchanges considering the statistical moments and the baroreflex sensitivity; the same applies to the copula density and rank tests. Theentropy analysis, however, turned out to be extremely sensitive so its implementation in Portapres® signal analysis is not recommended.
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