Customer Reviews

Prevention WS-820PV Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor

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I'd been wanting to purchase a blood pressure monitor for home use and had really been shopping around for sometime. All the seemingly quality ones I saw at retail stores and pharmacies were in the $70-$90 Range. As I shopped on Amazon.com I enjoyed reading the reviews of the different products. While I was tempted to purchase a lower priced model, some of the reviews about their quality made me do otherwise. This product is quick, accurate and heavy-duty in quality. It is not flimsy or made of inferior materials. For the price, I would truly recommend it.

Recently diagnosed with high blood pressure, my Doctor suggested that I keep track of my pressure at home. Since I travel extensively I wanted something compact that I could pack easily.

My wife is a subscriber to Prevention magazine and swears by the content so when I saw this brand I decided to get one.

It is a great little monitor, very accurate, fast and easy to use. I use the two memories to keep track of my morning and evening pressures seperately. When you hit the memory button the unit shows the average of the stored data. This is a nice feature.

I am very satisfied with this unit. Just make sure you follow the directions about keeping your wrist, and the monitor, at you heart level when you take your pressure. I saw that moving the monitor above or below heart level really does give a different treading.

The Prevention WS-820PV wrist blood pressure monitor is the ONLY one I am aware of that actually warns you of an irregular heartbeat while taking your blood pressure, etc. I have been having periods of shortness of breath, that actually makes it pretty much impossible to even talk at times, and now I am finding out why. I have had so many IHBs since using this, that I now have an appointment with my doctor to find out why my heart is doing this. I don't mean to sound dramatic, and maybe it isn't all that important, though I would think it would be, just common sense wise, so having this feature on this monitor is one EXCELLENT reason to purchase this unit. I read that it is listed as pretty much the best rated one around. It is also extremely easy to use. I can't 'feel' my heart doing anything unusual when the monitor has registered the IHBs, but have noticed that I have had the shortness of breath around the times it has registered the IHBs. So, just because you can't actually 'feel' your heart beating in some odd way, apparently doesn't mean that your heart isn't doing something it shouldn't.

Be Safe and BUY this Prevention WS-820PV wrist blood pressure monitor for yourself and maybe for your aging parents. It might make a Real difference in yours and their lives.

Recently bought one of these for my Mom. Very easy to use and the results are right on with the readings she gets at her Doctor's Office. She has a subscription to Prevention magazine so was very confident that the monitor could be trusted as well.

The readings are very fast. Data is stored in the memory and when you press the memory button it automatically shows the average of the stored data. That is a nice feature.

Not sure why the earlier reviewer had bad readings.

Note that you can not be talking or moving AND that the monitor should be at same level (height) as the heart.

I took three measurement and they are ALL within 001 of the previous reading. (If taken within 2 minutes of each other).

There are two memories, I guess M2 could be for spouse or loved one.

In the morning, I clear the entire memory by erasing/deleting the Average or "A" reading.

Then throughout the day, I take several readings (only the last 30 are retained).

The readings are numbered 1 thru 30 with 1 being the most recent.

The "A" reading is the average reading.

Thus at night or first thing in the morning BEFORE erasing the memory, I record the "A" reading for that day.

I also record if I had an irregular heart beat...note that the unit does NOT save the irregular heart beat if detected. You will have to remember that on your own.

I was so pleased that I just ordered a second one for using at work.

FOLLOW-UP....

I just received the second monitor...

The upper numbers SYS differ by only 4 or +/- 2 from center value.

The lower number differed by 1 or 2 at the most...

Note, had one monitor on left wrist and second monitor on right wrist.

Note that since the earlier review above, I now store the IRREGULAR heart beat readings in M2 and the normal heart beat measurements in M1

In researching wrist monitors, I discoverd that this model was the top rated in international testing. Search on "German Hypertension League Testing" and you can find the report. The WS-820 was the top performer, even beating out arm monitors.

I found the unit works really well and is quite fast. My readings usually take about 45 - 60 seconds. Its really easy to use and I take it with me when I travel. I also like the two memories. I use them to keep my morning and evening readings seperately.

I purchased this monitor based on my physicians recommendation. I had an older upper arm BP monitor that gave poor readings. It was time to upgrade to a better machine. This one fits well and reads very fast, and agrees with my Doctors readings.

Like all wrist monitors, it must be used carefully to get an accurate reading. It also tends to read a few points below an arm cuff when used as directed.

Like all wrist cuffs, it is supposed to be held at heart, or armpit level. However, with me, that gives a consistently lower reading than an arm cuff... by a few points. To compensate I have to hold it lower down, by 8 to 12 inches. Then it is consistent with the arm cuffs I also use.

It also tends to deflate a bit more quickly than I think is good for best accuracy.

The big flaw, and one it shares with the Prevention DS-1902PV Arm cuff, is that while it claims to detect irreglar heartbeat, and does, it DOES NOT STORE that info in memory along with the BP & pulse, time and date. If that info is useful to detect then it should be useful to record, and that is what I assumed it would do.

I think that is a bit of misrepresentation of the product.

I am also not happy with the way the information must be displayed for copying. It is a cumbersome system, and if you are not quick enough the display defaults and then that record, say number 24, must be found again, requiring another 24 button presses.

Otherwise it does what it claims, and is a very handy portable unit.

I purchased this monitor because it has a feature that will display, if a heart arrythmia is detected. I pop in and out of atrail fibrillation. This monitor allows me to monitor how long of a periord that I may be in afib.

The Prevention blood pressure monitor gets the job done. It seems to produce fairly reliable results and does its job in a reasonable amount of time. Still, I would prefer a monitor whose face mounted on the upper part of the wrist rather than the underside. It feels a little awkward sometimes. I also wish it worked a little faster too. Still, it has a very large face and anyone can read the results without having a hint of a problem. That being said, I find it to be more than acceptable, yet I wish it were a tad smaller, a bit comfortable and a little quicker with the results.