A blood pressure monitor serves an important purpose in accurately monitoring a patient’s blood pressure to provide error-free care and prescriptions. There are various monitors on the market with different features that can make finding the right one difficult. The most commonly marketed features are:
- Averaging
- Peripheral or Central Measurement
- Atrial Fibrillation Detection (AFIB)
Blood pressure monitors with averaging will take consecutive measurements (generally 3) to create a more accurate reading by averaging the results. Central blood pressure measurement tests a patient’s blood pressure within the heart’s aorta. Some forms of central blood pressure measurement can be non-invasive, utilizing a specialized device for arterial pressure waveform analysis with a cuff, and some are invasive, utilizing catheter-based pressure transducers. A monitor with central measurement can help in identifying any heart failure, vascular disease, or risk of stroke and is more accurate than peripheral measurement. Peripheral measurement is taken solely at the limbs, farther away from the aorta. A blood pressure monitor with Atrial Fibrillation Detection (AFIB) identifies atrial fribrillation with the analysis of irregularities in the pressure pulse wave using a cuff.
- Monitors with Averaging:
- Omron HEM-907XL (Professional Use)
- ADC e-sphyg 3 (Professional Use)
- microlife WatchBP Office 2G (Professional Use)
- microlife WatchBP TWIN200 AFS (Professional Use)
- Omron WatchBP HEM-9210T (Professional Use)
- microlife WatchBP Home A (Home Use)
- Monitors with Central Blood Pressure
- microlife WatchBP Office 2G (Professional Use)
- microlife WatchBP TWIN200 AFS (Professional Use)
- Monitors with Artrial Fibrillation Detection
- microlife WatchBP Office 2G (Professional Use)
- microlife WatchBP Home A (Home Use)