Omron HEM-711AC Omron HEM-711AC Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor with IntelliSense

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Product Features

• BLOOD PRESS DIG HEM-711AC FUZ/LOG

Product Description

BLOOD PRESS DIG HEM-711AC FUZ/LOG

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• ASIN: B0045AW15I
• UPC: 002765892173
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,709 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Blood Pressure Cuff That's Just What The Doctor Ordered, April 23, 2009

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Jojoleb "jojoleb" (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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There are lots of blood pressure cuffs for home monitoring that are out there. This one is the HEM-711DLX and is exactly in the middle of the Omron line up for over-the-arm blood pressure cuffs. Over the arm blood pressure cuffs are considered to be more accurate than wrist cuffs or finger cuffs. They are also less expensive than the wrist or finger cuffs in most cases.

The unit is easy to use and is straight forward to operate. It is easy to apply the cuff and all you do is press a button. The blood pressure correlates well with manual readings and my doctor's readings. Once you set the time, date, and year the memory feature is helpful so that you don't have to record all of your readings to paper or your computer at once. The cuff remembers the last 60 readings with a time and date stamp.

There may be other companies that produce quality cuffs, but Omron has always worked well for me. I have been impressed with the accuracy and the reliability of these cuffs. The company produces other cuffs, but I felt that this one hit the sweet spot for features and price.

The other Omron cuffs are as follows:
1. Omron HEM-432 Manual Blood Pressure Monitor
2. Omron HEM-712C Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor with IntelliSense
3. Omron HEM-780 Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor with ComFit Cuff
4. Omron Ultra Premium Digital Blood Pressure Monitor

All of these cuffs are easy to use, accurate, and reasonable options. After trialing most of them, I felt that the HEM 711-DLX offered reasonable features at a reasonable price and made the most sense.

The lowest priced model (HEM-432) was just as accurate, but required manual inflation and had a more difficult to apply blood pressure cuff. Manually inflating the cuff was at best an annoyance and resulted in errors from under inflation. The low line model also had a cuff that was a little harder to apply with one hand, the HEM 711-DLX has one that has a contoured side that made it easy to place and velcro the cuff in place.

The second lowest priced model (HEM-712C) worked well, but for about 10 dollars more, I was able to get a model with the easier to apply cuff and increase the warranty from 2 to 5 years. I felt this was worth it, but the HEM 712C is still an accurate and worthy model.

I didn't see an advantage to the HEM-780. It does have the 'TruRead' feature, whereby the blood pressure cuff takes three consecutive readings over three minutes and averages them. It also has a larger memory and can record blood pressures for two users. I didn't think that these added much for me. If my wife wanted to have the unit record her pressures too, I might have gone for it.

As to the HEM-790IT, Ultra Premium model, I didn't feel that I needed to download my blood pressures to a computer. If you like this kind of feature (which sounds kind of neat), this cuff is for you. I transcribe the blood pressures to my computer manually, so this was not a big selling point for me.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Make a doctor appt. the DAY you order this,If you are going to buy, August 9, 2009

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K. Johnson (Downers Grove, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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Ran to the doctor with alarmingly high readings. Turns out the monitor was consistently 20-30 points over. I was too late to return to amazon, so, after paying postage BOTH ways, the company was did NOTHING! Declared it within tolerance, and returned it to me. On a later doctor visit, it was still junk. Do yourself a favor, If you're going to buy this thing, make an appointment with your doctor, and bring the monitor with you, That way you can return it to amazon within the 30 days. Make no mistake OMRON DOES NOT STAND BEHIND THEIR PRODUCTS!!
Here's the numbers : 2 doctor visits $130, monitor $40, postage $17, monitor pressure 160/105, actual 127/78.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Handy Home Blood Pressure Monitor - Recommended, January 29, 2010

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C. F. Hill "CFH" (Blue Ridge Summit, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a convenient little gadget that works well and easy to use. We picked up the Omron HEM-711AC Blood Pressure Monitor at a local "big box" for somewhat more than it usually goes for here on Amazon. Being on meds that raise my blood pressure requires me to keep an eye on levels twice a day and I have been very pleased with this device. Here are my observations:

Pros -
+ Easy to Use, setup took less than 5 minutes and the instructions were easy to follow
+ Accurate, readings are very close to what I get at the doctor's office
+ Convenient, relatively small size and ability to power with 4 "AA" batteries or the included power supply makes this travel friendly
+ Features, includes pulse rate and has memory function

Cons -
- Cuff Size, the included 13" cuff is too small for some members of my household

Overall this device works exactly as I had hoped it would, and perhaps even a little bit better than expected.

Recommended!

CFH