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To: Grampa Dave

I have tried the wrist monitors and have found them to give wildly varying results. I returned it and got my money back.
I also tried a upper arm cuff one but was not happy with it either. Can anyone recommend a good / relaiable / accurate one for a relatively reasonable price?


45 posted on 05/15/2014 8:15:21 AM PDT by fulltlt
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To: fulltlt

My wife in her words is an old time nurse, with personal patient treatment learning versus class room learning with no patients.

She was a pioneer in ICU/CCU nursing and for 35 years was the head RN in a family practice. She has been monitoring BPs the old fashioned way for 5 decades.

Any doctor who knew her and worked with her, let her do BPs, cardiograms and other office testing and cardio procedures re BPs as she was better than them.

Each year she bought a new and expensive stethoscope and bp cuff to maintain her ability.

Last year when she retired, we tried various home monitoring systems/units on me, versus her listening with her gear. She returned most units within a day or so.

Then, she bought/tried the OMRON made by Intellisense, and she felt that it was accurate with my BP’s as her readings. Also, she or I could place it on her wrist and press start to monitor her BP. She still cross checks the OMRON made by Intellisense with her gear about once a month with me. A year later, she still trusts it.


57 posted on 05/15/2014 1:18:11 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obama cannot divert resources from his war on Americans!)
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