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● Be careful to regarding the effect of blood flow interference and resulting harmful injury
to the patient caused by continuous cuff pressure due to connection tubing kinking
● When using this device, please pay attention to the following situation which may
interrupt blood flow and influence blood circulation of the patient, thus cause harmful
injury to the patient: connection tubing kinking too frequent and consecutive multiple
measurements.
● Do not apply the cuff over a wound; otherwise it can cause further injury.
● The application of the cuff and its pressurization on any wrist/arm where intravascular
access or therapy, or an arterio-venous (A-V) shunt, is present.
● Inflate the cuff on the side of a mastectomy.
● Do not inflate the cuff on the same limb which other monitoring ME equipment is
applied around simultaneously, because this could cause temporary loss of function of
those simultaneously-used monitoring ME equipment.
● Please check that operation of the device does not result in prolonged impairment of
patient blood circulation.
● When measurement, please avoid compression or restriction of the connection tubing.
● The device cannot be used with HF surgical equipment at the same time.
2.4 Notice
2.4.1 Battery
● Please use two 5 AA alkaline batteries for this device;
● Please make sure the battery is properly loaded with correct polarity, otherwise the
instrument can’t be started;
● Do not mixed use the old and new batteries in the monitor;
● Please take out the batteries if not use the monitor for a long time (more than one
month).
2.4.2 Training
● Explain to patients how to stop operation if abnormal measurement occurs, and how to
remove the cuff if the patients feel painful or discomfort on arm;
●Keep still during measuring, especially do not move their cuffed arms, and it is better to
keep quiet, and make the cuff as the same horizontal position as the heart;
● If the arm-wrapped cuff is bending just at the time of inflating, then keep bending, do
not stretch your arm, otherwise it would cause pressure inside cuff changes rapidly and
disturb the measurement.
● Explain to patients how to deal with mal-operation and common problems.
2.4.3 Blood pressure measurement
● Patient with anticoagulant or patient with coagulation disorder may extravasate on the
position wrapping cuff, in the process of measuring blood pressure even the cuff is
worn correctly. In fact, no matter what type of the monitor is, such patients would
extravasate during the measuring process.
● If cuff fails to inflate in 150 seconds, guide patients to remove the cuff manually,
excessive inflation may block patient's blood flow that makes patient uncomfortable.
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