It has been over 10 years since the implementation of EU Commission regulation no 847\/2012 which banned the new Mercury sphygmomanometers in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fortunately, there is an alternative for clinicians wishing to record blood pressure using the Ausculatory method listening for Korotkoff sounds using a stethoscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Electronic manual sphygmomanometers like the A&D Medical UM-102B mimic the Mercury sphygmomanometer but have none of the inherent disadvantages. These devices blend the best of modern, reliable vertical LCD technology, with the traditional advantage and reassurance of a gold standard manual measurement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unlike Mercury sphygmomanometers, devices like the A&D Medical UM-102B sphygmomanometer don\u2019t require routine cleaning or maintenance and can be used at any angle with a wide range of cuffs sizes and on patients with arrhythmias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no oxidisation of the LCD which could alter the dynamic response and readings can be read to a single digit mm\/Hg. Most importantly, if a product like the A&D Medical UM-102B gets dropped you won\u2019t end up with a contaminated treatment room and an expensive and time consuming mercury spill to clean up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alternative clinically validated Mercury free sphygmomanometers are available, so clinicians do still have a choice as to whether they use a manual method to record blood pressure with a stethoscope or an automatic device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can find out more here https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/acatalog\/copy_of_Sphygmomanometers.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It has been over 10 years since the implementation of EU Commission regulation no 847\/2012 which banned the new Mercury sphygmomanometers in Europe. Fortunately, there is an alternative for clinicians wishing to record blood pressure using the Ausculatory method listening for Korotkoff sounds using a stethoscope. Electronic manual sphygmomanometers like the A&D Medical UM-102B mimic … Continue reading “In 2025 is there still a future for manual blood pressure measurement devices?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53,2],"tags":[45,49,192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmsinstruments.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}