Validation of the SAA-102 home blood pressure monitor according to the protocols of the European Society of Hypertension, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation and the British Society of Hypertension

Abstract

These data show that the SAA-102 device satisfies ESH, AAMI, and BHS protocols for both SBP and DBP and may be recommended for everyday use for BP monitoring at home and in clinical practice.

Validation of the SAW-102 wrist home blood pressure monitor according to the protocols of the British Hypertension Society, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, and the European Society of Hypertension

“…BP distribution for ESH and AAMI was according to the protocols. As indicated by us and other authors [6], however, it is extremely difficult to obtain correct distribution for the BSH protocol. In fact, we had less than expected participants in the extreme DBP group (> 110 mmHg): five instead of eight participants.…”

“…As indicated previously, several other research groups encountered similar problems recruiting participants with extreme values of DBP [6]. Following their experience, we have adopted the distribution of DBP similar to other validation teams, as reported previously [6].…”

“…The limits of agreement between the device and the standard were plotted using the BlandAltman's method, as described previously [6]. All BP differences are expressed by media ± standard deviation, as requested by AAMI protocol.…”

“…We have recently evaluated other BP arm devices of the same company, which received excellent grading [6]. These results, along with scarcity of recommendable wrist BP devices, prompted us to evaluate the accuracy of SAW-102 according to the protocols of the BSH, ESH, and AAMI as a main objective of our study [3][4][5].…”

Evaluation of the Omron MX3 Plus monitor for blood pressure measurement in adolescents

“…However, this type of equipment must be evaluated according to international criteria, such as those suggested by the British Hypertension Society (BHS) [14] and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) [3]. Furthermore, the majority of validation data originate from adult samples [2,6,16,20,26] information, and although several studies have been conducted with children [1,4,11,21,24,25], there are few studies that have examined the sensitivity and specificity of these types of devices jointly with a validation of BHS [14] and AAMI [3] protocols with this population. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the accuracy of the Omron MX3 Plus (model HEM-742-E) blood pressure monitor among adolescents according to BHS [14] and AAMI [3] standards.…”