Recommendations for portable blood pressure device

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Specializes in Medical /surgical. LTACH..

Hi, I’m a nurse on a busy unit and can never find a blood pressure machine to obtain my patients first set of vitals. I’m looking for a hand held blood pressure device (no cuff, just the machine) that specifically has a clip on the end of the tube that I can clip on each patients personal blood pressure cuff. I heard these exist. Does anyone know what I mean and know of such device?? 

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

Chances are that your facility will not approve it for patient use. Equipment requires preventative maintenance and calibration, which will be done by biomedical engineering, who will have all manufacturer instructions for use for equipment purchased by and approved by the facility. You would be better off working with management to make them aware of the shortage of equipment so that they can budget for additional equipment.

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Specializes in CM, Critical care, Education.

I find it funny that I  reading this post! I was looking for the same type of item early last week. I then realized I would like one to be set to perform post op intervals and store the data etc. I went as far as to look for a small-portable VS system. I quickly began to think about the calibration, maintenance etc. then realized it's probably easier to get a manual cuff.  But would love to know if anyone has found anything 

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Specializes in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.

I was provided a wrist BP machine when doing home visits. Long story short, not recommended to use at all. It gets an inaccurate reading or semi-decent reading less than half of the time it is used. Stick with a good ol portable BP machine. Omicron is a pretty common one and what I use. Got it off amazon. Honestly, if you are looking for something with even less space, a manual BP would serve you better than a bulky automatic BP machine. Just don't forget to clean it. I do home visits so I carry Cavi wipes with me to wipe down my equipment.

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barcode120x said:

I was provided a wrist BP machine when doing home visits. Long story short, not recommended to use at all. It gets an inaccurate reading or semi-decent reading less than half of the time it is used. Stick with a good ol portable BP machine. Omicron is a pretty common one and what I use. Got it off amazon. Honestly, if you are looking for something with even less space, a manual BP would serve you better than a bulky automatic BP machine. Just don't forget to clean it. I do home visits so I carry Cavi wipes with me to wipe down my equipment.

Thank you! Your comment was helpful to me

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