A method for processing two or more simultaneous continuous pressure-related signals derivable from a human or animal body from one or more locations thereof electable from:
- inside the body, outside the body, inside body cavity, outside body cavity, comprising the steps of obtaining samples of said signals at specific intervals, and in a processing unit converting thus sampled pressure signals into pressure-related digital data with identical time reference,
- wherein for selectable and simultaneous time sequence windows the method comprises using the processing unit for the further steps of:
- a) identifying from said digital data single pressure waves related to cardiac beat-induced pressure waves within said two or more simultaneous signals constituting a pressure recording,
- b) identifying from said digital data pressure waves related to artifacts or a combination of artifacts and cardiac beat-induced pressure waves within said two or more simultaneous signals constituting a pressure recording,
- c) computing time sequence (TS.x)-related parameters of said single pressure waves during said identical time sequence windows within said two or more simultaneous signals constituting a pressure recording,
- wherein the method in using the processing unit comprises additional steps of:
- d) determining relationships between time sequence (TS.x)-related parameters of said identical time sequence windows within said two or more simultaneous signals constituting a pressure recording,
- said relationships calculated as related time sequence (rTS.x) parameters, and selected as one or more from the group of:
- d1) relationship of mean values of starting diastolic minimum pressure of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.Pmin1),
- d2) relationship of standard deviation of mean values of starting diastolic minimum pressure of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanPmin1_STD),
- d3) relationship of mean values of systolic maximum pressure of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanPmax),
- d4) relationship of standard deviation of mean values of systolic maximum pressure of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanPmax_STD),
- d5) relationship of mean amplitude values of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeandP),
- d6) relationship of standard deviation of mean amplitude of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeandP_STD),
- d7) relationship of mean latency of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeandT),
- d8) relationship of standard deviation of mean latency of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeandT_STD),
- d9) relationship of mean rise time coefficient of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanRT),
- d10) relationship of standard deviation of mean rise time coefficient of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanRT_STD),
- d11) relationship of mean wave duration of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanWD),
- d12) relationship of standard deviation of mean wave duration of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanWD_STD),
- d13) relationship of mean single wave pressure of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanSWP),
- d14) relationship of standard deviation of mean single wave pressure of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanSWP_STD),
- d15) relationship of mean diastolic minimum pressure difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_Pmin),
- d16) relationship of standard deviation of mean diastolic minimum pressure difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_Pmin_STD),
- d17) relationship of mean systolic maximum pressure difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_Pmax),
- d18) relationship of standard deviation of mean systolic maximum pressure difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_Pmax_STD),
- d19) relationship of mean amplitude difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_dP),
- d20) relationship of standard deviation of mean amplitude difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_dP_STD),
- d21) relationship of mean latency difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_dT),
- d22) relationship of standard deviation of mean latency difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_dT_STD),
- d23) relationship of mean rise time coefficient difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_RT),
- d24) relationship of standard deviation of mean rise time coefficient difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_RT_STD),
- d25) relationship of mean wave duration difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_WD),
- d26) relationship of standard deviation of mean wave duration difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_WD_STD),
- d27) relationship of mean single wave pressure difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_MeanSWP),
- d28) relationship of standard deviation of mean single wave pressure difference of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanDiff_MeanSWP_STD),
- d29) relationship of single wave count of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.SWCount),
- d30) relationship of mean wave amplitude of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanWavedP),
- d31) relationship of mean wave latency of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanWavedT), and
- d32) relationship of mean wave rise time coefficient of two or more perfect time sequence windows from two or more different pressure signals (rTS.MeanWaveRT), and
- e) determining said related time sequence (rTS.x) parameters for a selectable number of recordings,
- said related time sequence (rTS.x) parameters used for formula-based adjustments of time sequence (TS.x)-related parameters of individual pressure-related signals.