2. DESCRIPTION OF DEVICE
2.1 Congratulations!
2.2 Intended use
With the
electronic scale, you have just pur-
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chased a highly precise and simultaneously robust
weighing instrument.
seca has put its experience at the service of health care
for over 170 years and as a market leader in many
countries, is constantly setting new standards with its
innovative developments for weighing and measure-
ment.
The
electronic scale is mainly used at hospi-
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tals, medical practices and inpatient care facilities in
accordance with national regulations.
The scale is for conventional determination of weight
and establishment of general state of nutrition; it assists
the physician supervising treatment in making a diag-
nosis or deciding on a course of treatment.
To make an accurate diagnosis, however, other spe-
cific examinations have to be ordered by the physician
and their results taken into account in addition to deter-
mining a weight value.
Besides conventional weight measurement the
also features a function to calculate the body
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mass index. The keypad is used to enter the height,
and this is followed by automatic calculation of the
body mass index from the weighing value. Height
measuring instruments from the
system can transmit the body size wirelessly to the
.
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Via the wireless network,
ing instruments can be connected wirelessly to a seca
wireless printer or to a PC equipped with
PC software and the secaUSB wireless
seca analytics
adapter.
The
is provided with rollers to allow it to be
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moved about and thanks to its low power consump-
tion, it will offer hours of battery operation for mobile
applications.
seca 360° wireless
seca 360° wireless
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