# Automated upper-arm cuff blood pressure device Technology · id `core:automated-upper-arm-cuff-device` · Cardiovascular Atlas · release `2b2017b84496b985` (public) > General information from published sources, not medical advice, and not reviewed by clinicians. Check the cited source before relying on anything here. The atlas's own text and curation may be reused under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/): credit the atlas, and do not use it commercially. See the atlas About page. Text quoted from a source stays under that source's own terms, given as the source's reuse\_basis. The atlas's reuse terms do not cover it. The downloads list each quotation with its source in third\_party\_quotations. Browse, organ or system: Blood vessels Browse, condition area: High blood pressure ## In plain language A blood pressure device with a cuff for the upper arm that works out the reading itself from signals in the cuff. ## Technical summary The oscillometric method on the upper arm, as the JACC Scientific Expert Panel describes it. Automated follows the panel's meaning, in which a device can take several readings at set intervals from one start. The panel sets these apart from semi-automated devices, which need a manual start for every reading. FDA classifies noninvasive blood pressure measurement systems under product code DXN and 21 CFR 870.1130 as class II. That is a broader device type than this technology, so DXN is a broad mapping. This identity says nothing about the accuracy or validation of any device or the authorization of any product. ## Claims, with the population each applies to ## Context: Adults whose blood pressure is measured (NICE NG136 recommendation 1.1.3) Recipient: Adult; Population: All adults, including those with type 2 diabetes, as the NG136 introduction states for its recommendations on measuring blood pressure and diagnosing hypertension. This atlas does not narrow that statement. Care in pregnancy belongs to the maternal atlas, and no claim here is about it.; Care setting: Not stated on the fetched page. Recommendation 1.1.3 is addressed to healthcare providers.; Geography: Not stated on the fetched page (NICE guidance; jurisdiction not verified); Life stage: Adult; Follow-up: Not applicable (recommendation context) ### NICE guideline NG136, recommendation 1.1.3, tagged with the year 2004, puts a duty on healthcare providers: every blood pressure device they use must be properly validated, kept in working order and recalibrated on a regular schedule as its manufacturer directs. It also refers readers to the website of the British and Irish Hypertension Society, which holds a list of validated blood pressure monitors. - Category: Recommendation - Evidence stage: Guidance - Certainty: Certainty not assessed - Applies to: Recipient: Adult; Population: All adults, including those with type 2 diabetes, as the NG136 introduction states for its recommendations on measuring blood pressure and diagnosing hypertension. This atlas does not narrow that statement. Care in pregnancy belongs to the maternal atlas, and no claim here is about it.; Care setting: Not stated on the fetched page. Recommendation 1.1.3 is addressed to healthcare providers.; Geography: Not stated on the fetched page (NICE guidance; jurisdiction not verified); Life stage: Adult; Follow-up: Not applicable (recommendation context) - Limitations: The recommendation is about devices for measuring blood pressure in general. The fetched page does not name automated upper-arm cuff devices in it, so this claim is placed on the technology page as the nearest guideline statement and does not say that NICE recommends the technology. The page does not define properly validated. The British and Irish Hypertension Society list itself was not opened. Its guidance page, at the address NICE links to, loads (fetch label ca-bihs-nice-link.html). Its list is a linked spreadsheet. The other address tried first, bihsoc.org, failed the certificate check (fetch label ca-bihs-bp-monitors.html). The recommendation is tagged with the year 2004 and no later edition of this recommendation was checked. The strength of the word must was not verified, and this atlas states NICE's recommendations in its own words because of NICE's reuse terms (see the NICE NG136 source record). The jurisdiction is not stated on the fetched page. - Last checked: 2026-10-11 - Sources: 1. Supports: Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management (NICE guideline NG136), Recommendations chapter (Guideline, edition The Recommendations chapter as shown on 2026-10-09 and fetched again on 2026-10-11 with identical bytes. The page header gives 26 February 2026 as the last update. This atlas cites six recommendations from it, each with the version tag the page shows: 1.1.3 is tagged \[2004\]; 1.2.3, 1.2.4 and 1.2.8 are tagged \[2019\]; 1.4.5 is tagged \[2004, amended 2019\]; 1.4.20 is tagged \[2019, amended 2022\]. Which edition of each recommendation these tags point to was not checked.) Locator: Recommendation 1.1.3, sentence 1. Retrieved 2026-10-09T15:59:21Z. Source state: Current. Snapshot hash: 68ce72f3487ffa4715f92ddfa8aaf6e093f5aecd3598cd59a0ab58f74ce86f28. How it applies: NICE NG136 as shown on 2026-10-09 and again on 2026-10-11 (same bytes), last updated 2026-02-26. 2. Supports: Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management (NICE guideline NG136), Recommendations chapter (Guideline, edition The Recommendations chapter as shown on 2026-10-09 and fetched again on 2026-10-11 with identical bytes. The page header gives 26 February 2026 as the last update. This atlas cites six recommendations from it, each with the version tag the page shows: 1.1.3 is tagged \[2004\]; 1.2.3, 1.2.4 and 1.2.8 are tagged \[2019\]; 1.4.5 is tagged \[2004, amended 2019\]; 1.4.20 is tagged \[2019, amended 2022\]. Which edition of each recommendation these tags point to was not checked.) Locator: Recommendation 1.1.3, sentence 2. Retrieved 2026-10-09T15:59:21Z. Source state: Current. Snapshot hash: 68ce72f3487ffa4715f92ddfa8aaf6e093f5aecd3598cd59a0ab58f74ce86f28. How it applies: The list the recommendation points to. 3. Background: Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management (NICE guideline NG136), Recommendations chapter (Guideline, edition The Recommendations chapter as shown on 2026-10-09 and fetched again on 2026-10-11 with identical bytes. The page header gives 26 February 2026 as the last update. This atlas cites six recommendations from it, each with the version tag the page shows: 1.1.3 is tagged \[2004\]; 1.2.3, 1.2.4 and 1.2.8 are tagged \[2019\]; 1.4.5 is tagged \[2004, amended 2019\]; 1.4.20 is tagged \[2019, amended 2022\]. Which edition of each recommendation these tags point to was not checked.) Locator: Recommendation 1.1.3, version tag. Retrieved 2026-10-09T15:59:21Z. Source state: Current. Snapshot hash: 68ce72f3487ffa4715f92ddfa8aaf6e093f5aecd3598cd59a0ab58f74ce86f28. How it applies: Dates the wording of this recommendation. 4. Background: Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management (NICE guideline NG136), Recommendations chapter (Guideline, edition The Recommendations chapter as shown on 2026-10-09 and fetched again on 2026-10-11 with identical bytes. The page header gives 26 February 2026 as the last update. This atlas cites six recommendations from it, each with the version tag the page shows: 1.1.3 is tagged \[2004\]; 1.2.3, 1.2.4 and 1.2.8 are tagged \[2019\]; 1.4.5 is tagged \[2004, amended 2019\]; 1.4.20 is tagged \[2019, amended 2022\]. Which edition of each recommendation these tags point to was not checked.) Locator: Introduction to Recommendations, scope paragraph. Retrieved 2026-10-09T15:59:21Z. Source state: Current. Snapshot hash: 68ce72f3487ffa4715f92ddfa8aaf6e093f5aecd3598cd59a0ab58f74ce86f28. How it applies: Says the measurement and diagnosis recommendations cover every adult, people with type 2 diabetes among them. ## Connected pages - Measures blood pressure: Blood pressure (`core:blood-pressure`) - Related to: Cuffless blood pressure monitoring (`cardio:idea-cuffless-bp-monitoring`) - Related to: Omron HEM-907 blood pressure monitor (`cardio:omron-hem-907`) ## Provenance Content hash: d07e8ef01439af8b56fa85986f3ab403770eb51c2e9effc64a31a93df0513706 Last substantive edit: 2026-10-11 Evidence last checked: 2026-10-11