Instruction manual

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How does the blood pressure
monitor work?
Your blood pressure monitor contains high quality
components for measuring and to display the results
on the display using the oscillometric method of
blood pressure measurement. It also measures and
displays your pulse.
The device measures blood pressure indirectly using
a cu around the wrist. In ating the cu presses
the arteries together so that no more blood can
 ow through them. If the pressure in the cu is then
reduced, this creates a relationship between the
sleeve pressure and the blood pressure.
The device has electronic step valves that can detect
even slight changes during the measurement,
which can be evened out using the cu pressure. By
reducing the pressure step-by-step,  uctuations in
the cu are recorded by the device and included in
the assessment. If no  uctuations are recorded for a
step, the air pressure is reduced. Existing  uctuations
are assessed at the corresponding step level until
they can be determined precisely.
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