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Estefanie Siqueira Vigato¹, Mariana Castro de Souza¹, Priscila Rangel Dordetto¹

¹Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.

Revista Brasileira De Enfermagem

|April 20, 2022

Abstract

Objectives:

to characterize oscillometric blood pressure measurement devices for sale in the virtual market and identify which ones have undergone a validation study.

Methods:

this was a cross sectional study. The search for devices for sale was conducted on websites, and the sample was composed of 137 devices obtained from 644 ads. We conducted a bibliographic survey in five databases and web pages enlisting devices submitted for validation. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to check data distribution, followed by Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests for comparisons, using the SAS 9.4 program.

Results:

only 16.7% of the devices were validated. The home devices ranged from USD 10.57 to USD 275.67. Only 102 ads informed the cuff size, with different nomenclatures.

Conclusions:

most ads contained non-validated devices, which were cheaper. We identified some ads falsely informing validation.

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