Our computerized blood pressure and heart monitoring system is perfect for our community setting.
Patients come in weekly or twice a month to be measured.
The system accurately measures blood pressure within 2mm Hg of accuracy to the gold standard measure of invasive catheter pressure. It also picks up most types of arrhythmias, is used to determine arterial compliance, can pick up the beginnings of a stroke or heart attack by measuring blood flow occlusions, measures left ventricular contractility, and aortic valve function. ALL of these benefits make the system superior to any home monitoring cuff, although we do encourage our patients to use their cuffs between visits. The computer generates a colorful datasheet which we print out for the patient to take to their doctor. It includes a graph of the measurement, which can accurately record any movement during the measure which may have thrown off the results, as well as arrhythmias.