Seca 515 User Manual
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1. Seals of quality (515) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Seals of quality (514) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Device description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Calculating weight and height . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Bioelectric impedance analysis . . . . . . . . . . 6
Patient data management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
User data management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Data transmission and network functions . . 7
3.4 User qualification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.5 Contraindications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. Safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Handling the device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Preventing electric shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Preventing injuries and infections . . . . . . . . 10
Preventing device damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Use of measured results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Handling packaging material . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.1 Operating elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.2 Symbols in the Start display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.3 Color symbols and additional
operating elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.4 Identification on the device
and the type plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6. Before you really get started... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.1 Scope of delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.2 Establishing power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.3 Setting up device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.4 Configuring device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.5 Operating the device in a PC network . . . . . . 20
Network connection via Ethernet or seca
wireless network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Indirect connection via USB memory stick 21
6.6 Operation using a seca 360° wireless printer . 21
6.7 Operation using a seca 360°
length measuring device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
7. Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
7.1 Operating concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Swiveling the touchscreen display . . . . . . . 23
Switching on the device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Selecting functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Selecting extended functions . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Displaying special characters . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Entering numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Measurement procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Automatic standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Switching off the device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
7.2 Determining the weight and height. . . . . . . . . 27
Starting the weighing procedure . . . . . . . . 27
Manually determining the hold value (hold) 28
Balancing additional weight (tare) . . . . . . . 28
Permanently saving the additional weight
(pre-tare) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Activating/deactivating
the pre-tare function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Manually entering body size . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Transmitting body size via seca wireless
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Automatic BMI calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Automatic switchover
7.3 Performing bioelectric impedance
analysis (BIA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Switching on the device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Determining the weight and height . . . . . . 31
Checking the module selection . . . . . . . . . 31
Starting measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Entering the PAL value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Printing partial results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
7.4 Assigning patient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Checking data connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Logging in to a seca patient database . . . . 36
Searching for patient data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Creating new patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Editing patient data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
7.5 Viewing analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
7.6 Closing the measurement procedure . . . . . . . 42
Saving the measured results . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Logging off from a seca patient database . 43
Printing measured results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
8. Medical basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
8.1 Bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) . . . . . . . 44
Classic analysis of body composition . . . . 44
Functional principle of bioelectric
8.2 Evaluation modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Summary of the evaluation modules . . . . . 46
seca specialty: Coordinate system with
tolerance ellipses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
8.3 Evaluation modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Development/growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Function/rehabilitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Fluid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Health risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Raw data for impedance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
8.4 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Waist circumference for children . . . . . . . . 57
Resting energy expenditure (REE)
for children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Resting energy expenditure (REE)
for adults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Percentile curves for children . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Total body water (TBW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Extracellular water (ECW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Fat-free mass (FFM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Bioimpedance vector analysis (BIVA) . . . . . 59
Body Compostion Chart
(Fat mass indices FMI, FFMI) . . . . . . . . . . . 59
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