Measuring Blood Pressure - Sanitas MD4300 User Manual

5. Measuring blood pressure

Attach the cuff
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• Expose your left wrist. Ensure that the circulation of the arm
is not hindered by tight clothing or similar.
Place the cuff on the inside of your wrist.
• Close the cuff with the hook-and-loop fastener such that the
upper edge of the device is positioned approx. 1 cm under-
neath the heel of the hand.
• The cuff must be tted tightly around the wrist, but must not
constrict.
Adopt the correct posture
• Before every measurement, relax for about five minutes.
Otherwise deviations can occur.
• You can perform the measurement while
sitting or lying. To carry out a blood
pressure measurement, make sure you
are sitting comfortably with your arms
and back leaning on something. Do not
cross your legs. Place your feet flat on
the ground. Make sure to rest your arm
and move it. Always make sure that the cuff is at heart level.
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Otherwise significant deviations can occur. Relax your arm
and the palm of your hand.
• To avoid falsifying the measurement, it is important to remain
still during the measurement and not to speak!
Performing the blood pressure measurement
As described above, attach the cuff and adopt the pos-
ture in which you want to perform the measurement.
• Press the START/STOP
the blood pressure monitor.
All display elements are briefly displayed.
The blood pressure monitor will begin the
measurement automatically after 3 sec-
onds.
You can cancel the measurement at any time by
pressing the START/STOP
As soon as a pulse is found, the pulse symbol
displayed.
• The systolic pressure, diastolic pressure
and pulse rate measurements are dis-
played.
appears if the measurement could not
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be performed properly (see chapter 9 "Er-
ror messages/troubleshooting"). Repeat
the measurement.
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