Lumiscope 1134 Deluxe Fully Automatic Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor with Irregular Heartbeat Detection
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Product Reviews of Lumiscope 1134 Deluxe Fully Automatic Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor with Irregular Heartbeat Detection
Product Review: Lumiscope 1134 Blood Pressure Monitor
Summary: 5 Stars
This monitor is by far the best for the money. The large display and other helpful features (Irregular heartbeat monitor, Low/High BPM, memory) takes the hassle and frustration out of monitoring caused by an unreliable/troublesome monitor.Product Review: Lumiscope 1134 Deluxe Fully Automatic Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor
Summary: 5 Stars
The thing works great very easy to use and keeps track of previous readingsProduct Review: Ouchie!
Summary: 1 Stars
This piece of medieval torture equipment was rated fairly highly, and had some bells and whistles that intrigued me. I had been using a ReliOn Two-channel BP cuff, but it finally gave up the ghost, so I decided to try this monstrosity. This instrument goes at least 30 mm above the last detected heartbeat, with standard stops at 176, 206, and 236 mm. So, after a stressful day, if one's BP has risen to, say, 165 mm, the machine will inflate to 206 mm, or maybe even, just to be sure, to 236 mm. My particular cuff deflates at a rate of approximately 1 - 2 mm per second, so the extra pressure requires at least an extra 15 seconds of loss of circulation to the hand, with accompanying discomfort. On these occasions the total time of blood restriction is (236 mm- 75 mm/ 2mm/sec = 40 sec.(or more)) Since it is now recommended that one take 3 readings to average them out, this means a total of well over two minutes without blood flow, and with accompanying discomfort. On one occasion the thing went to 236, and returned a reading of 128/68. That's a lot of unnecessary loss of circulation.
I have since replaced this piece of @#@$%^ with another ReliOn, which also gives me dual channel, irregular heartbeat and averaging, without the discomfort, and with much better accuracy and consistency. Admittedly, it also goes 30 mm above the last detected pulse, but it deflates at the rate of around 6 mm per second, so there's no discomfort at all.
Product Review: Worked until warranty expired
Summary: 2 Stars
Until the warranty expired it was fairly reliable with an occasional error message. All I get now are error messages.
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