24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitoring

Ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) is invaluable to measure changes in blood pressure over 24 hours to assess

 

• White coat hypertension when BP is elevated in the doctors office but normal outside of it
   

• Borderline Hypertension
   

• Resistant Hypertension when multiple medications are still inadequate to control BP
   

• Masked Hypertension when in office measurements are acceptable but out of office measurements range higher
   

• Hypotension when blood pressure is too low

 The Suntech Oscar 2 oscillometric BP monitor

• An innovative stretch sleeve design to maintain accurate cuff placement and promote patient comfort

• A light, compact monitor uses motion tolerant algorithms to reduce reinflations and failed readings

• Fully programmable BP monitoring intervals over 24 hours customizable overnight interval stores up to 250 recordings in flash memory

• Measures diurnal variation in BP. Blood pressure falls in the first few hours of sleep until a surge in the morning hours with onset of waking. Usually a 10-20% difference between awake and asleep BP. If the difference is <10% this is a non-dipping pattern