DTS Mobile Aneroid Sphygmomanometer

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DTS Mobile Aneroid Sphygmomanometer
The DTS Mobile Aneroid Sphygmomanometer is available today at
The Doctor’s Toy Store at a discount price that should cause many
doctors looking to replace their existing Blood Pressure tools with
this one right now. It’s on a mobile stand that makes it easy to
navigate it around your practice group office or healthcare facility.
Features:
6″ Luminescent dial
Adcuff inflation system
Adflow bulb & valve
Eight-foot coiled tubing
A sphygmomanometer, also known as a blood pressure meter, blood pressure
monitor, or blood pressure gauge, is a device used to measure blood pressure,
composed of an inflatable cuff to collapse and then release the artery under
the cuff in a controlled manner, and a mercury or mechanical manometer to
measure the pressure. It is always used in conjunction with a means to
determine at what pressure blood flow is just starting, and at what pressure
it is unimpeded. Manual sphygmomanometers are used in conjunction with a stethoscope.
A sphygmomanometer consists of an inflatable cuff, a measuring unit
(the mercury manometer, or aneroid gauge), and a mechanism for inflation which
may be a manually operated bulb and valve or a pump operated electrically.
Aneroid Sphygmomanometer Types
Manual
Manual meters are used by trained practitioners, this only yields the systolic pressure.
Aneroid sphygmomanometers (mechanical types with a dial) are in common use;
they may require calibration checks, unlike mercury manometers.
Aneroid sphygmomanometers are considered safer than mercury sphygmomanometers,
although inexpensive ones are less accurate. A major cause of departure from
calibration is mechanical jarring. Aneroids mounted on walls or
stands are not susceptible to this particular problem.
Digital
Digital meters employ oscillometric measurements and electronic calculations
rather than auscultation. They may use manual or automatic inflation,
but both types are electronic, easy to operate without training,
and can be used in noisy environments. They measure systolic and diastolic
pressures by oscillometric detection, employing either deformable membranes
that are measured using differential capacitance, or differential piezoresistance,
and they include a microprocessor. They accurately measure mean blood pressure
and pulse rate, while systolic and diastolic pressures are obtained less
accurately than with manual meters, and calibration is also a concern.
The oscillometric method of detection used gives blood pressure readings
that differ from those determined by auscultation, and vary according to many factors,
such as pulse pressure, heart rate and arterial stiffness, although some instruments
are claimed also to measure arterial stiffness, and some can detect irregular heartbeats.