The us preventive services task force uspstf has issued a draft recommendation supporting annual blood pressure screening in at risk patients using an abpm device prior to prescribing hypertension medication.
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring devices.
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring the new standard for office based hypertension diagnosis.
Path to improved health.
Hypertension is a blood pressure measurement in which the systolic upper blood pressure is at or above 140 and the diastolic lower blood pressure is at or above 90.
The information collected can help you and your doctor see if your blood pressure treatment is working.
It appears to give a more accurate picture of a person s blood pressure than the single recordings obtained in a doctor s office.
The oscar 2 ambulatory blood pressure monitor from suntech medical is the gold standard in 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring abpm.
Abpm 7100 ambulatory blood pressure monitor.
Your doctor may want you to use an ambulatory blood pressure monitor if.
Not everyone with high blood pressure is asked to wear a monitor.
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is a way of assessing a person s blood pressure during their routine daily activities and during sleep.
By providing valuable diagnostic information that in clinic and home blood pressure monitoring systems are incapable of measuring the oscar 2 system delivers a patient focused solution with unsurpassed comfort data reliability and confidence.