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| Omron HEM-650 Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor with APS (Advanced Positioning Sensor) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Omron
Discount Category: Health And Beauty
Selling Price: $89.00
Buy New: $42.35
Potential Savings: $46.65 (52%)
New (6) from $38.50
Customer Ratings:  162 comments
Color: White
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (pounds): 0.6
Dimensions (inch): 5 x 7 x 4
MPN: HEM650
Model: HEM -650
UPC: 073796650360
EAN: 0073796650360
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Comments:
 Too hard to use November 2, 2008
No stars for this. It is impossible to use if you have arthritis or and implant in your elbow and can't rasie your arm up to heart height.
 not reliable November 2, 2008
Service was great, product design very nice, but it consistently measured 10 to 12 points below the doctor's office, so I returned it.
 Great BP Cuff October 31, 2008
Once you get used to positioning the arm at the perfect angle, this is a great machine. Although you can also turn that feature off, I find it valuable to make sure the arm/wrist is in the same position to start checking BP and the arm must stay in the correct position to get a reading. Great Product. Use it every day.
Erratic...and unacceptable October 31, 2008
This product is totally unsatisfactory as a health monitoring aid. The results are erratic and not reproducible. It gives WIDELY different readings on left and right wrists (Yes, I changed the calibration as directed.). It does not agree even "in the ballpark" with an automatic arm cuff model OR a manual cuff/stethoscope. The much-vaunted APS system is a joke, inflating and registering only at crotch-level when on the right wrist!?! Steer clear of this product; mine was returned after a very frustrating afternoon of trying to get it to do ANYTHING in a repeatable fashion.
Omron HEM-650 wrist monitor works exellent AFTER you get the hang of it! October 25, 2008
Once you understand the "Heart Monitor" function and how to position your wrist/forearm and lightly support it with your other hand it works each and every time flawlessly. I just let it automatically "record" each check with It's memory function. Then any time I want to, I just press the memory button repeatedly and scroll through the last 90 pressure tests with date and even the time taken displayed. I have also taken it to the doctor to let him scroll too.
As far as the "Rhetoric" I have heard in my clinic about wrist units not being as good as arm units, well, that may or maynot be true. But people like me are not using them in a Hospital/Clinic environment, we simply need to keep an eye on things. When I can scroll through the previous 90 tests, I think anyone would be hard pressed to say it's dangerously innaccurate if at all, and isn't doing just what it's designed for.
As for Function it gets an A++ over ANY arm unit. Sitting on my couch I can reach over and grab my wrist unit in it's small plastic box (small enough by the way to just leave it right there on the end table at all times. Arm units not so sure?) slip the unit over my wrist with no gyrating on an arm. I then move my wrist across my chest (like pledge of allegiance)and that's it. What could be easier for home use. Certainly not an arm unit!
As far as OMRON goes, they are rated good in CR. I am pleased I got my HEM-650 I do not wish I had a free "do over" because, I'd get the same one!
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