SA Series Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor User Manual Safety Guidance
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foreign objects.
3. Do not measure ambulatory blood pressure on patients with sickle-cell disease or any
condition where skin damage has occurred or is expected.
4. Do not measure ambulatory blood pressure on the arm of the same side with a
mastectomy. Too frequent measurements can cause injury to the PATIENT due to
blood flow interference.
5. Use clinical judgment to decide whether to perform frequent blood pressure
measurements on patients with severe blood clotting disorders because of the risk of
hematoma in the limb fitted with the cuff.
6. Do not apply the cuff to a limb that has an intravenous infusion or catheter in place.
This could cause tissue damage around the catheter when infusion is slowed or
blocked during cuff inflation.
7. Do not attach the cuff to a limb being used for IV infusions as the cuff inflation can
block the infusion, potentially causing harm to patient. Do not apply the CUFF over a
wound, as this can cause further injury.
8. Do not apply the cuff to a limb where intravascular access or therapy, or an
arterio-venous (A-V) shunt is present, otherwise, it may result in injury to the patient.
9. Using an incorrect cuff size could result in erroneous and misleading blood pressure
measurement results and even harm due to over-pressure.
10. Make sure that the air conduit connecting the blood pressure cuff and the monitor is
neither blocked nor tangled.
11. Measuring of blood pressure can temporarily cause malfunctioning of other medical
monitoring devices on the same limb.
12. Ambulatory blood pressure readings can be affected by the measurement site, the
position of the patient, exercise, or the patient's physiologic conditions.
13. Continuous cuff pressure due to connection tubing kinking can block the blood flow,
and may result in injury to the patient.
14. Do not use the monitor on patients who are using cardiopulmonary devices and
defibrillators and patients who are severely ill or in the intensive care unit (ICU).
15. Check (for example, by observation of the limb concerned) that operation of the
ABPM does not result in prolonged impairment of the circulation of the blood of the
PATIENT.
16. The monitor provides over-pressure protection and thus will not inflate excessively.
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