Guest guest Posted March 7, 2011 Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 I'll put my experience into the melting pot - my very basic aneroid sphyg (no makers name on it) that I bought as a student has a tendency to stick (not let the air out smoothly and hence make it impossible to get proper reading) - not often but always at awkward moments. I took it to a local medical instruments company and they couldn't find anything wrong with it and when I asked if they could calibrate it, looked at me like I was from Mars! So I bought an electronic one - Omron M2 compact about 2 years ago and find it works very well in most circumstances with one big BUT - if the underlying BP is >170/100 (approx) it just comes up with " Err " as result. The manual says for higher blood pressures you have to have an estimate of what they are before starting - but doesn't tell you how to enter such an estimate even if you knew one. As I do have a couple of clients whose BP can exceed systolic 170 on occasion I find I need to have my old manual one there as a standby - rather annoying to say the least. I would love to hear what others use too. a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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