# Automated upper-arm cuff blood pressure device

Technology · id `core:automated-upper-arm-cuff-device` · Maternal & Newborn Atlas · release `15708f235d73cd42` (public)

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## 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.

## Provenance

Content hash: 4b2176e09fda17b109c71e52d835da2cb8682de2ed272d275188ee6a9e3a5878
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-11
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-11