The groups of Shock, Organ Dysfunction & Resuscitation (SODIR) and Clinical Research/ Innovation in Pneumonia & Sepsis (CRIPS) at Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR) have participated in the development of an innovative continuous non-invasive cuffless blood pressure. The project was conceived and patented by SabirMedical, a biotechnology start-up.The technique, based on photoplethysmography, is a new approach in the development of continuous non-invasive monitoring systems, improving the safety and comfort of critically ill adult patients. The study describes the preliminary results of this new system which obtains systolic, mean and diastolic arterial pressure, extracted from computer-assisted arterial pulse wave analysis. Unlike invasive methods which use catheters to measure blood pressure, the main advantages of this system are its non-invasiveness, its continuous character, its ease of application, and its independence from calibration (it doesn’t need later calibration). Drs. Vicent Ribas, scientific director of SabirMedical, and Juan Carlos Ruiz, SODIR’s researcher, explain that the application of the new system would be very simple and fast and would enhance the continuous monitoring of systolic, mean and diastolic arterial pressure, as well as a continuous pulse oximetry monitoring. Nonetheless, they report that further studies are needed to assess the validity of the system.The study, published in Intensive Care Medicine, received the Hemodynamic Monitoring award from the Spanish Society in Intensive, Critical Medicine and Cardiac Unit, on 2011. One year later, it was endowed with the Cardiovascular Award of the American Society of Critical Care.