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How does the blood pressure
monitor work?
Your blood pressure monitor contains high quality
components for measuring and to display the results
on the display using the oscillometric method of
blood pressure measurement. It also measures and
displays your pulse.
The device measures blood pressure indirectly using
a cuff around the wrist. Infl ating the cuff presses
the arteries together so that no more blood can
fl ow through them. If the pressure in the cuff is then
reduced, this creates a relationship between the
sleeve pressure and the blood pressure.
The device has electronic step valves that can detect
even slight changes during the measurement,
which can be evened out using the cuff pressure. By
reducing the pressure step-by-step, fl uctuations in
the cuff are recorded by the device and included in
the assessment. If no fl uctuations are recorded for a
step, the air pressure is reduced. Existing fl uctuations
are assessed at the corresponding step level until
they can be determined precisely.
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