This isn't for me, so if anything I say doesn't make sense -- not my fault, it just means I misunderstood the information I was given.

My sister's FIL recently had what I will call a cardiac episode (for lack of a better word), and now they're looking for something that can measure his BP and/or O2 saturation while he exercises.  As far as I know, in a home situation, the only way to do that is either manually take your BP or use a wrist BP monitor, which is what I told my sister when she asked; she said that she "couldn't find one with a good rating," and wanted to know if there was one I would recommend.

Thankfully, I have no cardiac issues, so I don't know the first thing about BP monitors.  But I figured someone here might have more of a clue... has anyone ever used one of those BP wrist monitors, one you'd recommend?

As for the O2 saturation, I'm really not sure how one would test that outside of a lab.  Is that even possible?  I asked if we're just looking to measure BP here, and she said that ideally both, but it's important that the BP reading be accurate.

Any ideas??  TIA!

I don't know how you would manually take your blood pressure?  Heart rate/pulse, yes - but blood pressure, I dunno?

 

I think his best bet is to try to recreate whatever is happening in a stress treadmill test.  They will have him hooked up to an electronic BP cuff during it and a finger O2 monitor.    I'm surprised that wasn't offered - or was it?

Haha, well, there are a lot of medics in my family so having BP taken is not a big deal!

And there you go -- I had no idea there was such a thing as a finger O2 monitor.

 

Haha, well, there are a lot of medics in my family so having BP taken is not a big deal!

 

And there you go -- I had no idea there was such a thing as a finger O2 monitor.

Do you guys walk around with a BP cuffs and stethoscopes at holiday parties or something?  lol   Seriously though - if you can do that, that seems like the most accurate way.

I believe the finger monitors are called oximeters.