Medline Digital Wrist Blood Strain Monitor, BP Cuff with Batteries Included (60 Studying Reminiscence)

Keep track of if your going to live
Very fast and convenient. Hopefully it’s accurate because it says my blood pressure is great. 124 over 81. It keeps track of the time and date of each reading so you can monitor your health or whatever. It runs on 2 AAA batteries and came with a pair. It appears to be a genuine Medline product.A use for this even if fairly healthy is to monitor your maximum exertion. To do so you start with the number 220, from that you subtract your age. Let’s say your 40 years old. So 220-40=180. If your heart rate ( beats per minute) were to go over 180, that’s the point at which your running yourself too hard and actually hurting yourself. For good exercise you should have it at 50-85% of its maximum. For our example that’s 90-150 beats per minute. That’s where your really burning fat and building strength at that age m. As you get stronger your resting heart rate will actually go down.. a serious beast of an athlete will do like 40 beats a minute when calmly sitting there doing nothing. While someone who is out of shape can have a resting rate of 100. Which means your not going to live to be 100 to years old if you don’t do something about that.

Blood pressure cuff for medical staff
I’ll give this item 4 stars because as a nurse carrying this wrist cuff around in my bag, it did not come with carrying box. The blood pressure cuff is for small-medium sized wrist. It is pretty good and fast.

Wildly inaccurate
I am a nurse. A hospice nurse, now. I was an EMT (taking blood pressure cuffs in the field and on a bumpy and noisy ambulance), then a CNA in an acute hospital (where I took blood pressures of upwards of 16 patients every 2 hours) then an ICU nurse, then a nurse in the peri-anesthesia setting where blood pressures are every five minutes and truly life and death. I have measured (very literally) many thousands and thousands of blood pressures over my career. I have measured many of them with $10 manual cuff+sphygmomanometer and a stethoscope and many of them with automated $10,000+ machines. I now seek something that can do it with some degree of accuracy on beautiful frail people who maybe can’t move their arms enough for me to put a cuff around their upper arm. I would like it to be accurate and gentle and somewhat quiet and I would like to be able to hold their hand and continue talking to them while the blood pressure runs. Mostly I would like it to just do its job and be reliable.I have been using omron cuffs. They do that job. They do it marvelously and sometimes so quietly that I can’t even tell that they’re doing it. And I lost one of mine at a nursing home and wanted to replace it.This is a woeful replacement.This cuff is not any of the above things except “around the wrist” and “somewhat quiet”. It is wildly inaccurate. So inaccurate, in fact that I would not trust anything that it decides to tell you and would not even trust it to be a paperweight because it doesn’t weigh enough.This will be promptly going back. Very disappointing because Medline should be a reliable company.I will again recommend nothing but omron cuffs and will be buying nothing but omron.Please do not buy this blood pressure cuff. I gave it a good solid try. I put many new sets of batteries in it. It still gives me a wildly interaccurate readin, when compared to a gold standard manually auscultated proper blood pressure cuff.Yuck.

Easy to use
I love how easy it is to use this blood pressure monitor and that it fits into even my smallest pocket book. Now I can monitor my blood pressure whenever and wherever.