Seca 220 - Manual (Page 3)

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1. DEVICE DESCRIPTION
1.1 Intended use
The medical measuring rod seca 220 is used with seca
column scales primarily in hospitals, medical practices
and in-patient care facilities in accordance with national
regulations.
In combination with a scale the measuring rod serves
as a complete measuring station and is therefore used
for conventional determination of weight and height as
well as establishment of general state of nutrition; It
assists the physician supervising treatment in making a
diagnosis or deciding on a course of treatment.
To make an accurate diagnosis, however, other speci-
fic examinations have to be ordered by the physician
and their results taken into account, in addition to
determining weight and height values.
1.2 Functional description
The measuring rod is compatible to a range of seca
column scales. The measuring rod consists of two tele-
scopic elements:
• Lower telescopic element:
Measuring range 1: 60 cm -130.5 cm
• Upper telescopic element:
Measuring range 2: 130.5 cm - 200 cm
The head slide of the measuring rod is locked at the
top of the upper telescopic element to measure per-
sons taller than 130.5 cm. The head slide needs to be
released to measure persons smaller than 130.5 cm.
The measuring flap on the head slide can be folded
down.
1.3 User qualification
Assembly Devices that are shipped partially assembled may only
be mounted by sufficiently qualified persons such as
specialist dealers, hospital technicians or seca service
technicians.