Measuring Blood Pressure; Who Traffic Light Function - Uebe Visomat Comfort Form Mode D'emploi

B
• Lay your extended and relaxed arm with the cuff on the dining table and do
not move it during the measurement; do not talk. The palm of your hand should
be facing upwards.
• Connect the cuff connector to the cuff socket on the left-hand side of the unit.
Make sure the connector is fully inserted into the unit.

8. Measuring blood pressure

• Switch on the unit by pressing the Start/Stop button.
The following display is visible.
• The automatically controlled inflation process begins
once the unit has completed its calibration against the
ambient air pressure.
• The cuff is inflated to the required pressure. A "▲"
flashes in the display.
• Then the actual measurement process starts while
the cuff is being deflated. The "♥" symbol flashes in
the display, and a beep sounds to denote the pulse
frequency.
• A long beep denotes the end of measurement. The cuff
is automatically deflated.
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Operating the unit Operating the unit
• The determined values of systole, diastole and
pulse and the pulse pressure (PP) are shown
alternately in the display.
• The unit switches off automatically after approx.
3 minutes.

9. WHO traffic light function

The unit categorises the blood pressure readings according to the guidelines of
the World Health Organisation (WHO). You can use the coloured fields to read the
categorisation of each reading:
– Lower dot (Green) signifies normal value
– Middle dot (Yellow) signifies borderline value*
– Upper dot (Red) signifies high pressure*
Systolic pressure
WHO 2003
= Upper value
mmHg**
from 140*
Red
Yellow
120 to 139
Green below 120
The categorisation according to WHO is stored with the readings and can be called
up again together with the readings from the memory.
B
* It is sufficient
Diastolic pressure
for one of the
= Lower value
values to be
mmHg**
raised.
from 90*
** millimetres of
mercury
80 to 89
below 80
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