Blood pressure cuff | HealthInfi

High or low blood pressure may be the symptom of many diseases and pathologies. Control and a regular blood pressure measurement help to timely start a drug treatment and reducing the risk for health.

Measurement of the blood pressure at home is an important element of control and prognosis of any cardiovascular disorder. The commercial and noncommercial organizations in the field of heart health care recommend everyone, who has high or low blood pressure, to buy special tool for its measurement, for example – the blood pressure cuff (sphygmomanometer).

The first sphygmomanometer was invented in the end of the 19th century and it has been updated many times since then. Most modern blood pressure cuffs consist of cuff, air injection device and a device that registers the air pulsation in the cuff. This blood pressure cuff review will help to understand the device types and choose the one that is most suitable for you.

Types of blood pressure cuff

There are several types of blood pressure cuff on pharmaceutical market. Most of them can be divided into mechanical, semi-automatic and automatic types. Depending on your purposes and possibilities, you can buy either of the types of blood pressure cuff.

Mechanical blood pressure cuff

 is a classic and the longest-used device in medicine that ever existed. Such device is almost never affected by external factors, and that fact increases the precision of measurements. Mechanical sphygmomanometers are popular and used by medical workers mostly.

The downside of this device is its difficulty of use. In order to measure the blood pressure, you need some experience and skills how to do this. Besides, to use the mechanical blood pressure cuff, you must have good hearing and eyesight.

The mechanical blood pressure cuff does not distort the results when moving your arm or speaking, or in arrhythmia. Another advantage of this device is its reasonable price. You can buy this type of blood pressure cuff at a low price almost in any pharmacy of the world.

Semi-automatic blood pressure cuff 

also requires manual air injection. This type of device has a display, which shows the results of measurements. To measure the blood pressure, you need no special skills or tools.

This kind of device has no drawbacks; it is easy to use for any person. You can see on the display the systolic and diastolic blood pressure indices and pulse rate. Compact semi-automatic blood pressure cuff by some manufacturers have small displays, which is not a beneficial part for people with bad eyesight.

Semi-automatic blood pressure cuffs measure the BP very precisely, because the human factor is excluded. These devices can be easily used by people with eyesight or hearing problems all by themselves. The price of semi-automatic blood pressure cuff is higher than the price of mechanical cuffs, but lower than the price of automatic ones.Read More