PMS Instruments: UA-789XL Large Cuff Monitor

UA-789XL Large Arm 42-60cm Digital BP Monitor.

It is well documented and confirmed by bodies like the British Hypertension Society that using the correct size cuff when recording blood pressure is vitally important to ensure measurement accuracy and consistency.

A cuff that is too large will produce a reading that is lower than the correct blood pressure; a cuff that is too small gives a measurement that UA-789XL extra large cuff BP monitor

is higher.

This can have an important impact on patient treatment profiles especially if they are borderline hypertensive or diabetic. Traditionally “large” cuffs for use with automatic digital blood pressure monitors have measured up to an arm circumference of 42cm.

With literally a growing population who may have larger arms than this, taking an accurate blood pressure using an automatic blood pressure monitor has been difficult. For some time we have been getting requests from customers using the A&D Digital Blood Pressure Monitors we distribute, for a larger cuff. There were several technical issues to overcome but A&D’s engineers have managed to overcome these as a response to customer feedback provided by PMS (Instruments) Ltd and have introduced the new UA-789XL Extra Large Cuff Monitor.

The UA-789XL features the same accuracy as other monitors in the A&D range with the advantage that it is sold with an Extra Large, 42-60cm arm circumference cuff which is designed solely for use with this monitor. It can be used with the standard large cuff as well and looks certain to prove popular with GP surgeries and Hospitals, as well as for specialist bariatric use.

With its large 60 reading memory with time and date recall it can be loaned to at risk patients to monitor their blood pressure at home, or where 24 hour monitoring cannot be used. The Monitor has an enhanced high capacity pump, which rapidly inflates the larger volume cuff, in a matter of seconds. In common with other A&D monitors, it includes popular features such as an Irregular Heartbeat Indicator, World Health Organisation (WHO) classification indicator and a large 60 reading memory.