Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Care Touch Fully Automatic Wrist Blood Pressure Cuff Monitor - Platinum Series, 5.5"

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calibrated with Drs and it's a match!

September 21, 2018

My BP is all over the chart, I have trouble with keeping it high enough
that I don't pass out! Every time I feel dizzy I take my BP and when I go
to drs I bring it and he can adjust my meds accordingly!
Easy to you, put it on wrist and press button and wait! Simple

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b.k.

This monitor is easy to use

February 18, 2018

I bought this several weeks ago. I do home health care. I depend on my equipment's accuracy for my patient's wellbeing.
This monitor is easy to use. Its heart rate monitor is accurate.
However, the BP function is WAY Off. It's always at least 10 points higher than a manual read and often much higher.
If I went by the readout on this monitor, every patient I see would end up in the hospital unnecessarily.
Unfortunately, I don't believe there's any way to calibrate this monitor.
If you need accuracy, which everyone does when monitoring vital signs, opt for something else.

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seatest

Inconsistent measurements

March 26, 2019

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I tried this wrist device, because I thought it would be so much easier, than removing my shirt/jacket to get a measurement on my old trusty and verified Omron device. Initially the measurements were very close to my Omron, so I was very happy. I have compared my Omron device to doctor's measurements and was happy with it's accuracy.

After using it for a few weeks I got widely varying results - some times as much as 30 mmhg on the Systolic within the same hour. I so I brought back out my Omron, and it gave consistent results under the same consistent conditions.

In short the Care Touch wrist monitor gives an accurate result some of the times, and I still use for convenience, but when I get a wacky number, I bring out my old Omron arm monitor.

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Brigitte Leehr

Consistently inaccurate .

February 24, 2019

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This monitor is just not accurate . I am a nurse and I am used to checking blood pressure manually . This model is sometimes used in the doctors offices and thought I would try it out as my blood pressure always seems lower in the doctor office than when I check it myself using the professional manual cuff. Sure enough I’ve compared it to using an upper arm manual cuff and it’s always a lower reading with this wrist cuff. It is proven that the further away from your heart the less accurate the reading will be. This wrist cuff should be avoided . Do yourself a favor , if you are going to purchase a digital machine then get the upper arm cuff. You want to be sure your readings are accurate especially if you are taking blood pressure medications. Giving it 2 stars because it arrived quickly .

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March 5, 2019

I can't review on the BP accuracy of the monitor, but the date and time doesn't work and the "set" button is sticky, so the accuracy of my blood pressure taken at different times of day can't be calculated without a pen and paper. Judging from the box it came in, that should've been a clue that it was a return, but unfortunately I threw the box out so returning it is likely impossible. I'll use it as a BP monitor, but unfortunately the date and time not working are useless in that factor.

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We found the readings to be inconsistent and incorrect.

July 2, 2019

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We found this unit to be unreliable. We compared readings with several other machines, including machines where I work (I am a critical care nurse), and found some readings to match other machines but frequently this unit was reading much higher than other machines. We believe it is not as easy as it appears to get the placement of the cuff correct, therefore, many readings are inaccurate. After a couple of months of working with this cuff, I ended up throwing it out. We have to have accurate readings and we can get that reliably with a couple of other machines we tried. I do not recommend a portable radial cuff like this. We use radial cuffs all the time at work but the engineering is obviously totally different. If you opt to use portable radial cuffs like this I recommend working diligently at getting the position of cuff and your arm correct so you are getting as consistent and reliable reading as possible.

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LeoGirl0728

Results WAY off vs arm cuff

June 7, 2019

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I’ve had an Omron arm-cuff BP machine & was intrigued by the ease & small-size of this wrist machine. Read tons of great reviews. But my readings were consistently WAY off from both my Omron arm reader & my nurses’ readings. I followed written expressions on positioning of my arm, placement of the cuff & everything but was disappointed that I got some really wacky readings. One time, it had a reading of 108/46 & that diastolic reading was COMPLETELY off - I’m mean out in left field. I’ve done readings in tandem - both this cuff & the Omron arm machine - and the results are always significantly different. So I’m sticking with my Omron wrist reader for accuracy. It’s a shame bc the design & screen is easy to read & it seems like a great idea. But if the readings are widely inaccurate, kind of negates the entire thing. Really bummed out.

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SOUTHERLAND

This seems like such a great idea and the device was well ...

April 2, 2018

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This seems like such a great idea and the device was well built but it was not accurate for me. I followed all the directions perfectly but it gave me very bad readings from what my BP actually was. I really wanted this to work but I had to go back to the old fashioned way. It's also worth noting that I did try some other brands of the wrist monitor but they didn't work either.

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Burket

You get what you pay for.

March 21, 2019

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The unit is sort of inexpensive, so i can't go all in on it being pretty much useless but it is in no way reliable.

I bought it after being hospitalized (CHF\AFIB) for basic home monitoring, I wasn't expecting exact accuracy but the device is consistently 30-40 points over my actual rate. Just for fun i brought it along to a follow up visit, and while an in lab device and a manual check of by BP came out within my normal range, this thing indicated a BP that was wildly elevated. So, yeah...

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February 7, 2019

Although it's a lot more convenient than an arm cuff, I have found this device to have wildly inaccurate readings.

First, if you do not place it correctly on your wrist, it will not read at all and instead will keep increasing the pressure until it finally runs into an error. That's the first thing to watch out for -- but OK, I placed it more carefully and followed all the instructions, and was able to get more consistent readings.

However I went to a health check up today and compared the readings with the manually taken and machine taken recordings. The wrist monitor was way off -- as much as 30 over on top and 10 over on bottom, over repeated measurements. This appears to have been the case with my at-home measurements as well, and I will not be using this for future measurements.

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Nathan

This machine actually RAISES my blood pressure

February 22, 2019

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Great... This machine actually RAISES my blood pressure

Maybe this unit is defective, but it randomly shuts off and forgets the date. Also, it does not remember the date when changing batteries. It’s extremely aggravating — which is exactly the opposite of what I need. But by the third or fourth time I need to check my blood pressure and this thing starts flashing at me that it can’t do it because it doesn’t know what time it is anymore, I can feel my arteries expanding inside of my body.

Maybe it’s because I’m using rechargeable batteries? But it doesn’t say anywhere that this is counter indicated.

I don’t like this one. I am going to search out another which is simply rechargeable (USB) and maybe with bluetooth so that I can track/chart my blood pressure over time. I’m sure there are ones that will sync to my phone.

UPDATE/CORRECTION: to add insult to injury, this unit DOES actually remember the date. It also remembers all of the previous measurements. BUT for some inexplicable reason it still doesn’t remember the TIME, so you have to go through the process of setting it from the beginning every time you change the batteries.

This made me want to take off another star but I will not because maybe this won’t matter to some people—also because when it works, it seems like it may be accurate (even though my wife doesn’t think it is).

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Brenda Brown

Not accurate nor even close

November 30, 2017

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I received a replacement since the first one didn't work well. However, both units are consistently 20 points high. I had a medical professional take my BP then used the CareTouch ---- there was a 20 point discrepancy. When you change batteries, you lose all set up and BP history. I wouldn't recommend it.

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