Measuring Blood Pressure; Who Traffic Light Function - visomat comfort 20/40 Gebrauchsanleitung

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• Lay your extended and relaxed arm with the cuff on the dining table and do
not move it during the measurement; do not talk. The palm of your hand should
be facing upwards.
• Connect the cuff connector to the cuff socket on the left-hand side of the unit.
Make sure the connector is fully inserted into the unit.

8. Measuring blood pressure

• Switch on the unit by pressing the Start/Stop
button. The following display is visible.
• The automatically controlled inflation process
begins once the unit has completed its calibration
against the ambient air pressure.
• The cuff is inflated to the pressure necessary for
measurement. The "▲" symbol flashes in the
display.
• The measurement is taken while the cuff is being
inflated. The "♥" symbol in the display flashes.
Beeps also sound to denote the pulse.
• Inflation stops as soon as the measured values
are determined, the cuff is then automatically
deflated.
• A long beep denotes the end of measurement.
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Operating the unit Operating the unit
• The determined values of systole, diastole and
pulse and the pulse pressure (PP) are shown
alternately in the display.
• The unit switches off automatically after approx.
3 minutes.

9. WHO traffic light function

The unit categorises the blood pressure readings according to the guidelines of
the World Health Organisation (WHO). You can use the coloured fields to read the
categorisation of each reading:
– Lower dot (Green) signifies normal value
– Middle dot (Yellow) signifies borderline value*
– Upper dot (Red) signifies high pressure*
Systolic pressure
WHO 2003
= Upper value
mmHg**
from 140*
Red
Yellow 120 to 139
Green
below 120
The categorisation according to WHO is stored with the readings and can be called
up again together with the readings from the memory.
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Diastolic pressure
* It is sufficient
= Lower value
for one of the
mmHg**
values to be
raised.
from 90*
** millimetres of
80 to 89
mercury
below 80
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