INFERUM ABP-051 User manual

Optimal blood pressure
Informative guide
HYPERTENSION
HYPOTENSION
HYPERTENSION
HYPOTENSION

This booklet is issued for users of Electrostimulator «ABP-051» for the
arterial blood pressure correction. Is this device unique? Half-and-half.
From the one hand, the method of non-invasive electrostimulation is not
new, it is applied quite for along time and its efficiency has been tested
and proven many times. From the other hand for the first time it was
perfected, programs of treatment were checked and completed and this
device was made multifunctional, comfortable, compact and absolutely
safe.
The content of this booklet helps to understand the principles of device's
work and use the device with maximal efficiency.
DEAR FRIENDS!
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Cardiovascular system is one of the
essential systems of our body. It
cannot stop for a second. To speak
technically, the cardiovascular
system is a giant net of pipelines,
which provides organs and tissues
with oxygen and nutrients.
If you stretch the vasculature into
one line, it would be more than
hundred thousands kilometers. It
is true, that pressure is needed to
pump the blood through this
«pipeline». Life is impossible
without arterial pressure. More-
over, everyone needs to have
optimal arterial pressure for good
state — and long life.
THIS UNCERTAIN PRESSURE
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ARTERIAL PRESSURE IS MEASURED IN MILLIMETERS OF MERCURY AND
IS EXPRESSED IN TWO FIGURES — LEVEL OF SYSTOLIC PRESSURE AND
LEVEL OF DIASTOLIC PRESSURE. THESE FIGURES ARE THE «UPPER»
AND THE «LOWER» CHARACTERISTIC OF PRESSURE.
— is the force of blood pressure
towards vascular wall during
systole, heart compression.
— is the force of blood pressure
towards vascular wall during
diastole, heart relaxation.
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If the heart is the only one pump of
cardiovascular system, it is quite
logical to believe that more or less
active heart work results in rises
and drops of blood pressure be-
cause of increase or decrease of
cardiac rhythm and volume of
cardiac output.
Actually, is not true. Heart work
affects the pressure insignifi-
cantly. Vascular tone has more
effect towards pressure. Diameter
of blood vessel is not constant.
According to circumstances they
can expand or coarct. They are
fitted by unstriated muscles. Fast
changes of pressure are caused by
spasm or relaxation of these mus-
cles.
The changeability of vascular tone
is necessary for adaptation of men
to environment conditions, loads
and stress. However, when this
changeability is excessive, when
vessels change its diameter with-
out reason, it is a problem. Fortu-
nately, they can affect the vascular
tone either with drugs, or with
devices, that help to correct blood
pressure and achieve appropriate
figures.
HOW TO REGULATE THE PRESSURE?
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In which cases the blood pressure
should be corrected? For example,
if blood pressure is low and a person
feels bad. However, first, high
blood pressure needs correction.
High blood pressure is also called
HYPERTENSION.
Hypertension, also know as high
blood pressure is the main problem
of global public health. Cardiovas-
cular diseases, which amounts
about a third of all fatal outcomes,
cause almost 17 millions of fatal
outcomes per year, hypertension
complications cause 9,4 millions of
all fatal outcomes worldwide per
year.
WHY THE HYPERTENSION IS
SO DANGEROUS?
FIRST OF ALL, THE MAIN DAN-
GER IS IN ITS COMPLICATIONS.
HIGH PRESSURE DESTROYS
THE WHOLE BODY, EVEN IF THE
FIGURES ARE NOT VERY BIG.
THE SO CALLED TARGET OR-«
GANS SUFFER FROM HIGH »
BLOOD PRESSURE.
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Vascular spasm, caused by high
blood pressure, damages the blood
circulation in small vessels of brain
and it can lead to acute and chronic
malfunctions in future: memory
impairment, attention focusing,
sleep pattern, etc.
High blood pressure can cause
cardiac abnormalities, coronary
heart disease, that leads to heart
attack.
TARGET ORGANS OF HYPERTENSION
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KIDNEYS VESSELS
IT IS HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO KNOW, THAT COMPLICATIONS CAN
PROGRESS FROM ALL FORMS OF HYPERTENSION — MILD, MODERATE
AND SEVERE.
THE SOONER THE TREATMENT IS STARTED, THE LESS IS THE
POSSIBILITY OF COMPLICATIONS. MAINTAIN THE BLOOD PRESSURE
ON AN APPROPRIATE LEVEL AND AVOID THE COMPLICATIONS.
Kidneys may suffer not only from
high blood pressure; also, they are
damaged by rapid pressure reduc-
tion. The pressure cannot be redu-
ced for more than 25% from the
initial level.
High pressure damages delicate
vascular walls. It can result in
sclerosis of small and then large
vessels, fragility of vessels and can
lead to a risk of hemorrhage.
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They say that high pressure is
always accompanied by headache,
palpitation, ear noise or bad gene-
ral state. However, it is not true. In
truth, all these symptoms can be
caused by other reasons. What
symptoms does arterial hyperten-
sion have? Unfortunately, this di-
sease does not have any obvious
symptoms. The only way to detect
hypertension is the measurement
of blood pressure with tonometer.
If your results are 140/90 or higher
twice a year it makes the reason to
suspect hypertension and to see a
doctor.
That is why the person, who doesn't
measure his/her pressure, risks to
find out this disease in resusci-
tation, when the person would suf-
fer from severe complications —
heart attack, stroke, cardiac and
renal insufficiency, thrombosis,
etc.
WHAT ARE SIGNS OF HYPERTENSION?
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IF YOU FEEL GOOD, WHILE THE FIGURES OF BLOOD PRESSURE ARE
HIGH — IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE HYPERTENSION.
IT MEANS THAT YOU HAVE NO SYMPTOMS AND THE DISEASE COURSES
IMPERCEPTIBLY.
«DAILY PRESSURE»
Doctors insist that the concept
«daily pressure» should be set
aside. Daily pressure means the
level of pressure when patient feels
good. There is no such a term nowa-
days. Blood pressure can below,
normal and high. If you have high
figures of blood pressure, you have
hypertension, regardless your
state.
«JUMPING PRESSURE»
Concept of «jumping pressure»
should have the special emphasis.
Doctors frequently hear the follow-
ing «I don't have hypertension,
only jumping pressure». Unfortu-
nately, precisely these patients end
up in hospital after stroke. The first
reason is since «there is no hyper-
tension», the patient does not have
any treatment. The second reason
is that abrupt change of pressure,
either rise or fall, leads to a risk of
stroke. It is strange, but the risk of
stroke is less for those patients who
have stable high blood pressure,
than for those who have unstable
pressure.
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BLOOD PRESSURE DIARY
Each measuring should be note in a
journal of pressure observation.
Mark those days when you felt bad
with red pencil, or put other sign.
Always take the diary with you when
you visit a doctor.
TONOMETER
Everybody should have device to
measure blood pressure at home —
tonometer. Tonometer is necessary
if your relative has hypertension.
You cannot treat hypertension
without constant control of pressu-
re, as well as without blood pressure
diary, which you should show to
your doctor.
What kind of tonometer is appro-
priate? According to opinion of
majority of doctors, the automatic
tonometer with a shoulder cuff is
the most convenient for home use.
It is quite precise and simple in use.
HOW TO MAINTAIN THE BLOOD PRESSURE?
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EVERY PERSON, EVEN HE/SHE DOES NOT HAVE HYPERTENSION,
SHOULD MEASURE THE PRESSURE FROM TIME TO TIME. IF THE
DIAGNOSIS IS SET, THEY SHOULD MEASURE THE PRESSURE DAILY AND
KEEP BLOOD PRESSURE DIARY.
PRESSURE MEASUREMENT
Do not drink coffee, strong tea or
smoke before measurement. Take
off or weaken compressive parts of
clothes — ties, belts, corsets.
Sit comfortable, put on the shoul-
der cuff (do not put it on the shirt-
sleeve), put the hand on the table,
relax it, then press the button and
wait while the measurement is
continued.
Sometimes the results of measure-
ments can differ on different
hands. In that case, fix the highest
result. Blood pressure control is the
best prevention of hypertension.
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HYPERTENSION IS A DISEASE
FOR ALL YOUR LIFE, WHICH
YOU CANNOT CURE, BUT YOU
CAN AND SHOULD CONTROL IT
TO AVOID COMPLICATIONS.
Unfortunately, there are no scien-
tific methods to treat hyperten-
sion once and for all times. This
diagnosis is for all life, and if you
have it you should study how to live
with it and keep it under control.
There is an exception — when
another disease causes hyperten-
sion.
You can avoid hypertension if you
notice it at once, when you have no
complications, target organs are
not damaged, and there are no
other signs. However, this would
IS IT TRUE, THAT HYPERTENSION
IS UNCURABLE?
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take serious efforts. You will have
to get rid of excessive weight, limit
salt and, what is more important,
increase your physical activity.
In addition, it is highly important to
avoid stress, since it leads to
increase of blood pressure. If the
stress lasts for a long time, the high
pressure becomes chronic. If we
detect the hypertension late, it
becomes not enough to change the
way of life, it is important to control
pressure and maintain it on the
appropriate level with the help of
treatment. It does not matter by
what means you decrease the
pressure level, it is more important
that these means are effective, safe
and available, since you need to use
them every day during all your life.
HYPERTENSION IS SERIOUS THING. IT IS A SERIOUS DISEASE, AND ITS
NEGLECTING IS FATAL.
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APROXIMATELY 10% OF PA-
TIENTS HAVE SECONDARY HY-
PERTENSION, IN OTHER WORDS
OTHER DISEASE CAUSES IT.
90% OF PATIENTS HAVE PRIMA-
RY OR ESSENTIAL HYPERTEN-
SION, IN OTHER WORDS IT HAS
NO OBVIOUS REASONS.
Every treatment starts from diag-
nosis. The treatment of hyperten-
sion starts from advanced survey:
you need to detect the form of
hypertension, level of complica-
tion risk, find out whether the tar-
get organs are damaged and
whether the hypertension is a sym-
ptom of other disease, which can be
cured.
HOW TO TREAT THE HYPERTENSION?
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TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION, DEPENDENTLY THE DEGREE
Patient has no complaints about state of health. At the
beginning of treatment, a doctor may recommend to
change the way of life: saltless diet, physical activity
increase, giving-up smoking, abuse of coffee and alcohol.
Patient complains rarely to palpitation, lassitude, flabbi-
ness, nausea, etc. It requires not only change of the way of
life, but also additional treatment with the use of drugs.
The pathological changes of health state. Doctor prescri-
bes drastic medicines and increases the doze. When the
disease develops into a severe form, the surgery may be
required.
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Sometime the drugs you use may
cease to help. This is so called
«withdrawal syndrome» that is
familiar to doctors. In that case, you
should correct your therapy with
your doctor. The usage of drugs
along with physiotherapy (e.g.,
with Electrostimulator «ABP-051»)
helps to postpone or even elude the
«withdrawal syndrome».
WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME
REMEMBER ABOUT THE SIMPLE MEANS TO PREVENT
THE DEVELOPMENT OF HYPERTENSION
Limit
the salt
Increase
the activity
Lower the
body mass
Avoid
stress
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PRINCIPLES OF EFFECT?
The device «ABP-051» is assigned
to exert influence (upon) reflexo-
genic zones of body which situated
on a wrist by an electric current of
different frequencies for correcti-
on of the arterial pressure.
Stimulation by an electric current
is the most universal way of excita-
tion of receptors, triggering a cas-
cade of regulatory and adaptive
mechanisms of the body. The elec-
tric current is easily dosed in amp-
litude, it makes it possible to con-
trol the frequency of pulses, their
Transcutaneous Electrostimulator
for arterial pressure normalization
«ABP-051»
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duration, shape, polarity and, final-
ly, is an adequate stimulus for exci-
table tissues.
The researches show, that during
electrostimulation there is a
change of impendence of sub-
electrode skin zone, as well as
changes in heart rate variability,
e.g. tension-time index by R.M.
Baevskiy*, indicating high sensiti-
vity of the regulation system to the
electrical impact. They can selecti-
vely influence the regulatory sys-
tem of body to restore homeostasis
during electrostimulation by chan-
ging of frequency while the im-
pulse height can be hardly felt.
The type of disease and comforta-
bility of device usage at work, at
home define the choice of points of
impact, during the course treat-
ment. The stimulation is conduc-
ted with pulse packet, the quantity
of pulse packets corresponds to a
set of frequencies to correct the
arterial pressure. The effectiveness
of treatment depends on patient's
state before treatment and treated
reflexogenic zones.
* R.M.Baevsky, Dr. scient. med, an honored scientist, senior researcher of State Scientific
Center RF of Biomedical Problems Institute. The author of 400 scientific papers, 18
monographs and 14 patents of heart rate variability.
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Patient does not get used to the
treatment by electrostimulation,
moreover the impact of device
«ABP-051» has low intensity and
duration, which can increase
tolerance and make procedures
safe. The clinical efficacy of blood
pressure correction via electro-
neurostimulation is proven by
numerous practical results and
clinical studies published in
specialized medical publications.
It is true, that regulation of arterial
pressure depends on different facts,
connected with genetics, stresses,
nutrition and way of life. The incre-
ase of vascular tone or increase of
rigidity of vascular walls, increase of
intensity of neuronal regulation,
quantity of sympathetic charges
towards muscle vessels have certain
dependences. The change in diame-
ter of small vessels for a part of
micron can affect quite essentially
PRIMARILY, THE DEVICE IN-
FLUENCES THE VASCULAR TO-
NE. AT THE SAME TIME, THE DE-
VICE DOES NOT HAVE ANY IM-
PACT ON THE VOLUME OF CAR-
DIAC OUTPUT OR CARDIAC
RHYTHM.
HOW THE EFFECT OF BLOOD PRESSURE
CORRECTION IS ACHIEVED?
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