Up until now many Hospitals and GP Practices have purchased low cost digital blood pressure monitors designed originally for home or retail use. As good as some of these monitors are they are not necessarily designed for repeated use on a daily basis or designed to stand up to the rigours of Hospital or Primary Care use.
Monitors in these environments can be subjected to drops and knocks associated with a busy ward or unit.
Expensive vital signs type monitors are available but with extra features not necessarily needed by all.
The A&D Medical UM-201 aims to sit somewhere between these two camps and is aimed at the clinician looking for simple one button operation, accurate readings, cost effectiveness whilst anticipating heavy daily use. It concentrates on features customers actually want, like a large LCD display, long cuff tube, fast measurement times and simple one button operation.
The durable and chemical resistant body and cuffs are easy to clean and disinfect with common antiseptic agents and the low whole life running costs make this suitable for the Hospital environment. The UM-201 features A&D’s latest Electronic Constant Exhaust Valve (ECEV) for enhanced measurement accuracy as well as Irregular Heartbeat Detection (IHB) technology.
We recently introduced a UM-201 Pro package which includes a small (16-24 cm), adult (22-32cm) and large (31-45cm) cuffs as well as a mains adaptor. At £99 it is proving a popular package and for most the complete professional blood pressure solution.
