User manual MEDION BLOOD PRESSURE MONITOR MD 42780

[. . . ] Batteries should be deposited at a collection point for used batteries. It is recommended that you check the usability of the unit every three years at least. You can clean the casing of the blood pressure computer and the sleeve carefully using a soft, slightly damp cloth. The consequences of too high blood pressure are one of the main causes of death today. [. . . ] Measure your blood pressure at normal body temperature, but not if you are too hot or cold. After you take your measurements, a doctor should interpret the values and diagnose them. The doctor will tell you which blood pressure level is normal for you, and which peculiarities you should report if they occur. Do not implement any therapeutic measures without having spoken to a doctor first. NEVER take medicine in particular as a result of the measured values without asking a doctor for advice! Attention is advised for the following persons: Persons with high blood pressure, diabetes, liver disease, hardened arteries, poor circulation and so on. Your blood measuring unit contains high quality technical components and materials for measuring pressure, processing the signals and displaying the values on a liquid crystal display. The unit measures blood pressure indirectly using a sleeve around the wrist. Inflating the sleeve pres ses the arteries together so that no more blood can flow through them. If the pressure in the sleeve is then reduced, this creates a relation between the sleeve pressure and the blood pressure. The unit has electronic step valves that can detect even slight changes during the measurement, which can be evened out using the sleeve pressure. By reducing the pressure step by step, fluctuati ons in the sleeve are recorded by the unit and inclu ded in the assessment. If no fluctuations are recorded for a step, the air pressure is reduced. Existing fluctuations are assessed at the corre sponding step level until they can be determined precisely. Blood pressure measured at the wrist can differ from the pressure measured at the upper arm, for example because the strength of the arteries in the wrist and upper arm may differ. In many cases, the difference for healthy persons can be ±10 mmHg of the systolic and diastolic blood pressure. You can save up to 90 measurements including the date and time in the unit's memory. Pay at tention to the polari ty (the negative terminal faces the spring). You should also change the batteries if nothing ap pears on the display when you turn the unit on. As the supplied batteries are intended for checking, they may expire sooner than commerci ally available batteries. AM: If "AM" is displayed in front of the time, then you are in the morning hours (0:00 to 11:59). PM: If "PM" is displayed in front of the time, then you are in the afternoon/evening hours (12:00:00 PM to 23:59). [. . . ] Switching off the unit If you forget to switch off the unit, it switches off au tomatically approx. Measurement values (blood pressure and pulse) are stored automatically in the memory together with the date and time once the measurement is complete. To display the saved measurement values press the memory button M (= "Memory"). The first value displayed is the one that was last measured (such as me mory space 60). [. . . ]