Surgical and intensive care patients face a higher risk of death and longer hospital stays because they are susceptible to both hypotension and hemodynamic instability – or unstable blood flow.
Ramakrishna Mukkamala, professor of bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, and Aman Mahajan, Safar Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine with a secondary appointment in bioengineering at Pitt, received a $2,707,906 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop "Smart Cuff" – a multifunction device that can reliably monitor blood pressure, cardiac output, and ventricular ejection fraction on its own.
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