Blood pressure is defined as the amount of force at
unit area which the blood exerts on a wall of a blood vessel. The
BP has a clinical importance as the basic index in the medical
examination of patients. Especially, the percentage of the
hypertensive is more than 15% in an adult population of Korea
and hypertension is notorious as ‘a silent killer’ because it has
no prior symptoms. The most important thing in the diagnosis,
treatment and prognosis of hypertension is the accurate
measurement of the BP. In this study, we developed the blood
pressure simulator for the monitoring of oscillometric BP
devices and compared this KRISS simulator with commercial
simulators. Finally, we tested the commercial oscillometric BP
devices (6 models from 5 manufacturers) using the KRISS
simulator. The KRISS simulator has the repeatability error
below 0.1% for the pressure generation and we expected to
develop the BP simulator for Korean by the collection of clinical
data from Koreans.