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3.3 Performance of Occlusion Test
Requirements for preparing to the test:
1. The test is to be performed in the morning, on an empty stomach.
2. Tobacco smoking, intake of vaso-active drugs, intake of caffeine, alcohol or other stimulants,
moderate and heavy physical activity should be stopped one day before the test.
3. The patient should rest in a warm, darkened, quiet room for at least 15 minutes before the test starts.
4. The patient should lye on his back on a couch. The hands placed along the body. The test should be
conducted in a warm, darkened, quite room.
Add a patient to the database , if he has not been not registered yet, or select the registered patient
by double clicking his data.
Activate "Measurements" window by clicking its header or its button at main window toolbar:
If in "Measurements" window the "Occlusion Test" tab is not activated, click it:
Put on the sensor of the 1st channel (the one connected to the left device connector) on index finger of
the right hand so that the sensor's wire was on top. Likewise, put the sensor of the 2nd channel on the
index finger of the left hand. The cuff is put on the forearm of the left hand for performing the occlusion
test. In the initial state the cuff is not inflated.
During the standard test the patient should sit in a relaxed position with hands placed on a table. The
patient should not move during the whole test.
In "Measurements" window the graph of patient's pulse waves will be displayed: