Wednesday, July 23, 2014

What is a Sphygmomanometer??

It’s quite a fancy name, and when it comes to medical equipment, having names that hardly anyone can pronounce is fairly standard.  But it’s not a fancy imaging machine, or a device that keeps your heart pumping… It checks your blood pressure!
aneroid sphygmomanometer


A sphygmomanometer is a blood pressure meter, the one you see all the time at the doctor’s office, where they cuff goes around your arm and then squeezes to check the pressure of your blood flow.  The ones we see most often use a pump to inflate the cuff and have a manual gauge to check the pressure, while the person measuring also uses a stethoscope so they can hear the point of blood running through the artery. These are called aneroid sphygmomanometers. They were invented in 1881 and improved several times before being introduced as the ones we so often see in the early 1900’s.


Recently, many doctors have switched to digital sphygmomanometers that use just pressure to calculate blood pressure measurements instead of needing the aneroid version plus a stethoscope.  Whether or not doctors use the digital or aneroid versions is a personal choice, with many believing the manual ones to be more accurate as long as they are correctly calibrated. If you’re one of these folks, head on over to our site and pick up a fancy new aneroid sphygmomanometer today!

9 comments:

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  4. Taking a patient's blood pressure is one of the most frequent tasks preformed throughout a medical career and home health use.
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  7. The FDA Cleared Santamedical Aneroid Sphygmomanometer is ideal for medical professionals in all settings. Stress-tested over thousands of times, it is one of the most durable, precise, and dependable blood pressure measurement devices on the market.

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