There are digital ones that are effectively "Put on cuff, press button, watch readout" though they're not as accurate as looking at a column of mercury and measuring its height. The Wikipedia article isn't bad at a layman's level.
The "big problem" for me is getting the right cuff size; if the cuff is the wrong size, the reading's off (for example, my BP reads nearly 10/5 points higher with a small cuff than with a large cuff).
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Date: 2008-11-07 02:55 pm (UTC)The "big problem" for me is getting the right cuff size; if the cuff is the wrong size, the reading's off (for example, my BP reads nearly 10/5 points higher with a small cuff than with a large cuff).