[gui-talk] Talking blood pressure unit (Will)

[Will Smith]

It is a great device for sure!  My main advice is what you have discovered 
on your own.  I might add best readings occur when you are calm, seated, 
with the arm resting palm down on a surface like a table at normal height 
from floor.  I often wait 5 minutes or so and try a second reading. 
Sounds like you have thething figured out pretty well!  Good luck and 
write again if there are questions.

Will
  On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Joel Deutsch 
wrote:

> Hi Will,
>
> I'd have written you off list with this, but maybe there are subscribers
> here who might find this informative.
>
> I received that model of talking blood pressure device  from Amazon, and a
> sighted friend helped me by stetting it at the 150 mark to guide it
> properly.  my blood pressure's regularly been down around 100 over 60
> lately, thanks to one of the meds I'm taking.
>
> I've gotten some pretty wild readings off the thing while learning to use
> it.pretty high. But I think I've got the cuff adjustment just about right,
> which is a little tricky if you're alone, as I am, and doing it one-handed.
>
> but when I got 98 over 58 this evening, twice in a row, with a pulse rate
> just a few beats lower than I've been getting at doctors' offices, I figured
> I'm getting close. Cuff tightness seems to be the most important thing, if
> I've read the quick start instructions correctly.
>
> Do you have any tips from a practiced user? It's a pretty cool device, and
> I'd like to get a better handle on it and figure out how to estimate its
> accuracy.
> .
>
> Joel
>
>
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