Wrist Style Blood Pressure Monitor
by Get Organized
Our Price: $19.25
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Category: Kitchen
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Get OrganizedBrand: Get Organized
Product features:
- Simply slip over your wrist and press start
- Oversized easy-to-read digital display
- Shows your pulse and systolic/diastolic pressures
- Stores 60 previous readings with date and time
- Comes with carrying case
Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Wrist Style Blood Pressure Monitor
Customer Review: WrisTech Blood Pressure Monitor is easy to use!
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this WrisTech Blood Pressure Monitor device via Publishers Clearing House (PCH). PCH is that company that does those contests where people are suppose to win lots of money but at the same time they are really trying to sell you magazine subscriptions by sending you their junk mail with those magazine stamp stickers that you have to lick and stick onto the entry form. PCH is now also doing the same thing by selling products instead of magazine subscriptions in their junk mail. Anyways, they had a stamp sticker for this WrisTech Blood Pressure Monitor device. You had to tear the stamp sticker off of a printed half sheet info page for the device, lick the stamp, and paste the stamp onto the PCH entry form. I don't know if I won the latest PCH contest, but I wanted to buy this WrisTech Blood Pressure Monitor device which they were selling for something like $20-$30 dollars plus S&H. You pay something like $6.99 a month or pay the whole thing in full (I paid the whole amount when they sent me the bill with the device). Looked like a good buy. And looking at the Amazon price here for $20-something dollars plus S&H, it looks like that I got a comparable price with PCH but the Amazon price here is cheaper. I've had this WrisTech device for several months now. The device is from the North American Healthcare company with the actual device being made in China. WrisTech is apparently a brandname for their product.
Anyways, this WrisTech device is easy to use, but you have to do it correctly. The first time when I put this thing on my wrist, I put it on like a watch facing upwards near the back of the hand. Of course, that was all wrong because I didn't read the instructions. I read the instructions after getting the wrong frightening blood pressure reading. You have to turn your open palm upwards and put the WrisTech device on that way. You press the lower right button to turn it on, wait a moment, and press that button again to start taking the reading. It pumps up around your wrist and then counts down until you get the reading. You have to rest your elbow on a table and have your hand/wrist/device be at the same level as your heart. I rest my elbow on my free hand on the table and watch the WrisTech do its thing. You have to get two AAA batteries for this thing. I find the battery cover to be a little difficult to take off. Batteries are suppose to last six months if you take your blood pressure once a day. Of course, the batteries may last longer if you don't measure your blood pressure that often. I would say to get name-brand alkaline batteries like Duracell if you want the batteries to last a long time. Oh, after you use this device to take a reading, it will automatically turn off after 60 seconds.
Now, doctors and nurses will tell you that these wrist blood pressure devices are inaccurate. I was told that when I went to a doctor's appointment, but they told me to go ahead and use the device to see how it works out over time. I think the problem with erroneous readings is because consumers may not be using these wrist devices correctly - namely resting your elbow on a table and having the device be at the same level as your heart. Also, you have to stay still, relax, not talk when the device is doing its thing. I remember reading somewhere that you have to wait a half hour after eating before taking a measurement with this type of device. Anyways, the retail box, that this WrisTech device came in, said that this device has "Clinical Accuracy." So, use the device correctly and I think you should get readings that are comparable to what you get at the doctor's office.
Of course, you have to go with what your doctor/nurse finds as your "official" blood pressure readings using their blood pressure devices where you roll up your sleeve and they put that pressure band around your arm above the elbow. You can buy the same type of device that doctors/nurses use, but the wrist-type devices are cheaper and easier to use. However, the catch is using the device properly and comparing your results with what the "official" readings that you get when you go to your doctor's appointment. What is nice about this WrisTech device is that it can save the last 60 readings. And so you can compare your personal readings as well as with what you get at the doctor's office. Thanks for reading.
Description of Wrist Style Blood Pressure Monitor
Blood pressure monitor Simply slip over your wrist and press start. Oversized easy-to-read digital display shows your pulse and systolic/diastolic pressures.Memory recall, stores 60 previous readings with date and time. Comes with carrying case. Requires two AA batteries (not included).Health Monitors
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