Omron HEM 629 Auto Inflate Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor
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Product Reviews of Omron HEM 629 Auto Inflate Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor
Product Review: Omron Hem 629
Summary: 4 Stars
This is overall a great product. I am an EMT-B and i use it every day. It is nice to have the hard case with it beacause it keeps it from getting damaged while bouncing around in the back of the ambulance. I have gotten inaccurate reading from this bp cuff on a few patients, but that's not bad considering the volume of patients it has been used on without a problem.Product Review: Omron Wrist Blood Pressure/HeartRate monitor
Summary: 4 Stars
I like this little device because it is very easy to use, holds the information for future reference (memory option) and has a large face with easy to read numbers and it is small in size.
It takes blood pressure and also pulse. It is so much simpler than the old cuff type, just strap on with velcro strap, press blue button. It seems reliable as I get similar readings with other BP monitors. It uses AA batteries which so far seem to last a long time.
Fun, functional and easy. I would give it 5 stars if it held more than one person's information in memory and if it were less expensive.
Product Review: Omron blood pressure monitor
Summary: 5 Stars
I had a blood pressue monitor before that was not a wrist model,and I wanted something smaller and easier to use. This wrist model is very easy to use and the readings for BP and pulse are very large and easy to read. Also, the body of the unit appears to be quite substantial and of high quality; the readings are made quite quickly and I like the feature that you can store the data. Summary: it is portable, easy to use, well made, quick and clear readings and appears accurate. I really can find no negatives, and the Amazon ad gave me all of the data I needed before ordering it.Product Review: Priced right
Summary: 5 Stars
Great product for the price. Easy to use digits large enough to see without readers. Archival mode allows for easy tracking of data especially usefull when providing documentation for those who need anti-hypertension therapyProduct Review: Pros and Cons - but I recommend something else
Summary: 2 Stars
I have had this product for about 3 months. I returned the first one I owned (an arm unit) and tried this one because the first one was not inflating properly after about 2 weeks of use. This unit from Omron has some pros and cons, but overall, I'd recommend buying something else primarily because it just isn't very accurate or consistent in its readings. This is despite my being very careful to follow the provided instructions exactly and position the device on my arm the same, and the level of the device the same, each time.
Pros
- I find the wrist unit very convenient - much more so than the arm unit I tried before.
- Because it is small and fits in a case about 3"x4"x3", I have room to sit it on my bathroom vanity or even on a table in my living room and use it every single morning. The prior arm unit was bulky and awkward, and I felt like I had to "store" it daily which led to less consistent use.
- Its small size also makes it easy to take with me on business trips, and other travel.
Cons
- Readings are inaccurate - I try to get 3 consistent readings at each measurement session (by consistent I mean both systolic and diatolic don't vary more than 10 points each. It almost always takes 4-5 attempts, occasionally as many as 8-9. So this leaves me feeling like I can't trust the unit.
- When I measure 107/75 then 125/85 then 139/95 in the same sitting, while carefully positioning the unit, my body, and the unit relative to my body, it leaves me frustrated with the finiky nature of the product. And of course, those readings have very different meanings.
- Unit should error out when it is not reading correctly, rather than give false readings. It will do this in extreme cases but not in cases 20 points apart.
-That said, in general I find I can estimate in a 10 point range (like "130's" over 85-95) but it takes a lot of measurements.
- Lack of a data port to dump data to my PC. This feature should be standard on all medical measurement devices, in my opinion, including blood pressure monitors, glucose monitors, thermometers, etc etc etc.
Conclusion - if you want to see a general trend (up or down) in your blood pressure, this will probably allow you to do so if you take enough readings to get a good average measurement each day, and then track that and graph it over time. It is very convenient, but not very accurate or precise. I will keep mine for travel but am now shopping for a different unit for use most days. Its "ok" for the $70 I paid for it at a Rite aid. I saw it at $99 in another store. But if I had it to do over again, I'd buy something else.