Blood Pressure Machines Guide

What to choose between Omron HEM-790 upper arm vs Omron HEM-670 wrist blood pressure monitor?

Is there a blood pressure monitor that you can wear all day and it will just measure and record your BP all day?

That type of information would not be particularly useful as your blood pressure is constantly changing in response to your activity. Here is an explanation of the ideal way to take your blood pressure (from http://www.smart-heart-living.com/high-blood-pressure.html )

When taking your blood pressure, avoid smoking, eating, drinking coffee, tea, or alcohol, or heavy physical exercise for at least 30 minutes prior. Sit quietly for 5 minutes. Take two readings about 3 – 5 minutes apart. Keep a record of your readings. This will help you see any changes over time, and create a record you can share with your doctor.

The other thing is that the wrist type of monitors are not considered as accurate as the type with an arm cuff.

What is the best,most accurate & reliable,home blood pressure monitor.Wrist or bicep?

I currently have a wrist monitor but the readings differ from those taken outside the home.

I have had both and found the wrist monitor worked better. If you don’t put the band on the arm in the right spot you will not get an accurate reading. Also make sure you get a self inflating one rather than one you have to pump yourself. I think wrist is better. I use the Mark of Fitness wrist monitor and have found it to have better readings than the cuff arm band. Readings will always be different than those outside the home (such as doctors office). Factors play into that such as nerves, stress, etc. As long as your readings are normal and close to the doctor’s readings you are ok.

How accurate are the blood pressure testing machines at the pharmacies?

My last testing I did twice.. first was 134/80 and the second was 103/77…. There seems to be a wide descrepancy.

First, your personal blood pressure can vary widely. For instance, mine can change 20 points in as many minutes.

Second, I doubt those machines are calibrated on a regular basis. If you used the same machine regularly, you would get a rough idea if you’re generally going up or down, but from machine to machine – I’d doubt there’d be consistency.

If you can use a variety of equipment and average out (when taken under the same conditions) you’ll get the best info, but of course, no one wants to take their pressure 20 times a day.

Try to have the same conditions and test on the same equipment, so you can compare day to day. Every once in a while get it properly done so you know how far off (if at all) your machine is.

Is there any nurse who can state how accurate a Panasonic wrist blood pressure monitor ew-3037s is?

systolic if higher or lower by how many points when compared to the ones you use at the hospitals?

I’ve found that this blood pressure monitor is accurate and everyone who I’ve talked to that has used it has really liked it. They like the portability and how quickly it works. I have had someone tell me that occasionally it will give you an error message, but I’m pretty sure that happens with all monitors, even the ones used in hospitals.

If you’re looking for something you can take with you this is a great option. the Homedics wrist monitor is a high quality product as well.

What is the most accurate home blood pressure monitor and what is the reading for normal blood pressure?

my doctor recommended omron. I just got my a few weeks ago and I am still experimenting with it so see how accurate.I am finding the numbers can be quite different depending on how I am sitting. on the couch (with arm on the arm is slightly elevated) and on a chair with the same arm lowered.

I get different numbers this way. don’t know what to believe. I will however have to take it to the dr.office and compare theirs with mine.

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are home blood pressure machines accurate?

i have a question… i am a 25 year old male 6′4 about 190 lbs… when i use a home blood pressure machine its always normal, usually around 123/76.. however whenever i use a blood pressure machine at a pharmacy even if completely relaxed its always very high, usually around 144/88.. what reading should i go by?

The accuracy of machines really varies. The finger bp machines are very inaccurate. I’ve found the wrist ones are ok. The home cuff ones vary. If you are curious, get a MD, nurse, pharm etc. to take it for you.

OMRON HEM-650 Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor, how do i get it to work?

How do i get this thing to work, i put it on and follow the instructions, but all it does is beep!
What do i do?

Thanks.

Are the batteries low?

What is the best home blood pressure monitoring devise?

I have a Microlife devise and I am wondering if it is as accurate as the dr.’s office.

The Morgan Freeman and Bruce Lee pe nile blood pressure home monitoring device

Drug store blood pressure machines?

I took my blood pressure at the drug store in the ones they have set up there and it was 148/101 and my pulse was 100. Do you think it was just stress since it is finals week at my college or just a bad machine. When i donate blood or go to the health center its usually high. Just curious.

those machines are notorious for being inaccurate, suggest that if you want an accurate idea as to what your blood pressure is, you need to get it checked at the same time of day for at least five days in a row. They can do this for you at a fire station, or any walk in clinic, or you can buy your own blood pressure cuff.

I use a wrist Blood Pressure Monitor…..?

When I go to the Doctors for my blood pressure to be checked it is always high but when I use my wrist type blood pressure monitor at home it gives me a normal reading of 120/80.aprox.

My wife uses our wrist monitor and her readings are always consistent with the Doctors BP monitor so I know my wrist BP monitor isnt faulty.
I dont really know if my BP is high ot not..I am in a dilema as to whether I really have a BP problem or not.

Any thoughts…Thanks to you all for helping…

The readings you (or anyone) gets on a monitor aren’t ‘real’ or ‘true’.
That is, the readings you see aren’t your arteries’ operating pressures. So, ‘120′ actually ISN’T 120 and ‘80′ ISN"t really 80.
Why? – well, because they are merely the internal cuff-pressure when the cuff is tight enough to stop the flow of blood and when it’s slack enough to let flow resume. But the internal cuff pressure isn’t the same pressure that is applied to constrict the artery, because much of it is absorbed in distorting the flesh at the cuff-ends, and much is lost in compressing sinews, and other elastic tissue before it even begins to be applied to the actual artery. that’s simple 4th grade Physics, and why doctors have fallen for this elementary elephant-trap for yonx, is beyond me.

Secondly, even if they were ‘true’ they’re not the pressures generated by the heart. They’re quite simply not. (the ‘indicated’ systolic is higher and diastolic is lower… honest! – If you want the source reference for that I’ll give it to you)

Thirdly, your wife and you will almost certainly have different readings on the left and right arms. And if you measure them at different times they’ll be different too. (So 11.30 a.m. will be vastly lower than 6.30 p.m -unless you’ve been doing something stressful just before the morning one
(My wife has the distinction of being diagnosed as "hypotensive" and "Hypertensive" in the same hospital, in the same week, by two different Cardiologists…. One wanted to give her medication "to bring her blood-pressure down" and the other wanted to give her the opposite "to bring her blood pressure up"… Fortunately I was there to stop the whole bl***dy nonsense.)

The only thing you can derive from monitor readings is CHANGE. And the change refers only to YOU. So, if your ‘apparent BP’ rises 25% over a period, then it reflects a true 25% change in your cardiac output pressure. -Similarly, if it falls 15%, then the same applies.

All the rest is medical mumbo-jumbo and can be ignored.

Why? because the reading you get at home with your wrist monitor depends only marginally on what your arterial pressure is. But two other factors act to influence the reading you get.

Oh, and just as a correction of another posting, the phenomenon you describe, simply can’t be "explained by the so-called ‘white coat-syndrome". That’s what student nurses and medics are taught…. but if it were true then some explanation would have to be forthcoming as to why everyone doesn’t exhibit it… And, of course, -there is none.
EDIT : The "not everyone gets white coat syndrome…" posting below is, of course, a circular argument. If one accepts that "white coat syndrome" exists and is real, then it follows that if some exhibit it and some don’t, then some "get" white coat syndrome and some don’t.
But to explain the phenomenon by simply saying " some get it, and some don’t" is just going round in circles. It’s using an assumption to prove a theory.. See Euclid. Another example of pseudo medical mumbo-jumbo.

Anyone is just as entitled to say that the White Coat Syndrome is spurious, and the validity is just as true.