Blood Pressure Machine Preference?

I can tell you from experience that the wrist ones are notoriously inaccurate. Often off by 10 points or more. I have both. For my money, a really good one is the
Omron 10 Series Wireless Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor with Cuff that fits Standard and Large Arms (BP786/BP786N) with Bluetooth Smart Connectivity.
I can send results to my printer. I can take a print out with me when I visit the doctor. It has a rigid cuff that easily goes around your arm and secures with Velcro. Easy to operated one handed.
The wrist one I have is the Easy@Home Digital Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor (BP Monitor) with Pulse Meter and Backlit Large Display, EBP-017 This one is also easy to operate, but results should only be considered ball park range. In the end, I would say the human ear with a stethoscope is the most accurate.

 

We got one of the wrist ones for home. It is an OMRON model HEM650N. The new automated arm ones they have in the doctors office are very painful for my wife, so they even us the wrist one at the clinic. We have checked the accuracy of ours to the ones at the clinic and they are very close.

 

Not the correct positioning of your hand while taking a BP. While seated in a chair, rest your arm up on a table like this:
with the arm model, and this with the wrist model

 

The wrist model we use has us putting our arm across our chest, close to the heart. Hand does not go down at all.

 

Kegerator.

 

Bourbon.

 

Omron is a solid brand, but I'd point you toward the arm cuff as opposed to the wrist model.