Sanitas SBC 21, Instructions For Use Manual

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5. Measuring blood pressure
Attach the cuff
• 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.
• Fasten the cuff with the hook and loop fastener so that the
upper edge of the monitor is positioned approx. 1 cm below
the ball of your thumb.
• The cuff must be fitted 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.
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!
Selecting memory
Press the button to display the date/time and current user
memory. Select the desired user memory by pressing the user
selection button . Confirm your selection with the button.
You have 2 memories with 60 memory spaces each to store the
measurements of 2 different people separately or to separate
measurements taken in the morning and at night.
Performing the blood pressure measurement
• As described above, attach the cuff and adopt the posture
in which you want to perform the measurement.
• Select the user memory or . Start the measurement by
holding the button. Following the display check, during
which all numbers appear, the cuff inflates automatically.
Whilst the cuff is pumping up, the device already calculates
measurements for estimating the necessary pump pressure.
If this pressure is insufficient, the device automatically pumps
more pressure.
• Then the pressure in the cuff is slowly released and the pulse
is detected.
• When the measurement has been taken, the remaining air
pressure dissipates very quickly. The pulse, the systolic and
diastolic blood pressure are displayed.
• Measuring can be cancelled at any time by pressing .
• The symbol _ appears if the measurement could not be per-
formed properly. Take note of the chapter on error messages/
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