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How does the blood pressure monitor work
Your blood measuring monitor contains high quality technical components and
materials for measuring and to show the results on the display. It also measures and
displays your pulse rate.
The blood pressure monitor measures blood pressure indirectly using a cuff around
the upper arm. Inflating the cuff presses the arteries together so that no more blood
can flow through them. If the pressure in the cuff is then reduced, this creates a relation
between the cuff pressure and the blood pressure.
The monitor has electronic step valves that can detect even slight changes during the
measurement, which can be evened out using the cuff pressure.
By reducing the pressure step-by-step, fluctuations in the cuff are recorded by the
monitor and included in the assessment. If no fluctuations are recorded for a step, the
air pressure is reduced. Existing fluctuations are assessed at the corresponding step
level until they can be determined precisely.
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