Thursday, August 25, 2016

Ozeri BP2M CardioTech Premium Series Digital Blood Pressure Monitor with Hypertension Color Alert Technology

This Ozeri BPM2 Cardio Tech Premium series digital blood pressure monitor comes in a small box with two AAA batteries and a user manual. This blood pressure monitor is very handy and easy to carry and is highly portable. This monitor is very simple to use and have very clear instructions about how to use in the user guide.  This monitor comes with a wrist band and is designed to wear in the wrist.



The screen is big enough to display the readings and the numbers are clear to read. This monitor can be used to store readings for up to 3 users. For every reading, the monitor displays the user number (1/2/3), date and time, systolic and diastolic readings and pulse rate.

This BP monitor has advanced Hypertension indicator with three color codes. This Indicator color codes the Systolic and Diastolic readings in green (normal), orange (prehypertension) and red (hypertension). Per the manual, this BP monitor can stores up to 1197 blood pressure readings (399 x 3 users) with date and time recordings. I have not used that much to confirm but I can find all the reading I have taken so far for 2 users with date and time.



User selection needs to be done when the monitor is turned on otherwise it will default to user 1.  It also shows the average of last three BP readings. One other advantage is the color coding split up between systolic and diastolic readings. That means if the diastolic reading is very high and systolic is normal, the upper half will be different color (orange or red) and the lower half of the screen will be in green color. I also noticed that no color is shown if the reading is too low and this is not mentioned in the spec.

On the negative side, I feel that the results are not accurate sometimes and found slightly varying results when I recheck immediately. The wrist cuff position and the hand position have major impact in the results. There is an instruction to follow specific cuff position to achieve accurate results. If the specified positions are not followed then I get inaccurate results and sometimes make us feel unhealthy. Usually the blood pressure monitors that measures blood pressure in upper arm are more accurate than the wrist monitors, but they won’t come very handy. So both have their pros and cons.




Summary:
+ Handy
+ Easy Usage
+ Highly Portable
+ Batteries
+ Travel BP box
+ 3 Users can use it
+ Color Hypertension indicator code
+ Power on/off button
+ Good wrist cuff which fits perfect
+ Average of last 3 readings
+ Good Storage of the readings with date and time, hour and minute
+ Pulse/heart rate for heart health
+ 5 year Warranty

- Slightly inaccurate when the cuff/hand positions are not perfectly followed

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