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It's not even a little yellow box now. Fairly recently they are now battery powered tiny clips over your finger with a built in display just big enough to show
by zaroth 10y ago
It's not even a little yellow box now. Fairly recently they are now battery powered tiny clips over your finger with a built in display just big enough to show pulse and oxygen levels.
Apparently they are cheap enough and so easy to use that nurses are buying their own and carrying them around along with their stethoscopes.
The only concern, like with stethoscopes, is they are likely to be the dirtiest instruments in the room and they are so quick and easy to clip on a finger it's easy to forget to wipe them down before and after each use.
To try to cut down on this germ vector, they also make a disposable version of the sensor that goes on your finger that can be left with each patient instead of traveling with the monitor.
- ayuvar 10y agoI see nurses using the tiny battery-powered versions quite a bit now. Sometimes they even have colour-coded cases. They seem like a great addition to the toolkit and they're so quick to use that they don't get left behind like more complicated tools would.
- calvano915 10y agoI've been taught in Sports Injury Management that these are useful but can be off as much as +/- 5%. Just something to keep in mind.
- blhack 10y agoFor example: https://www.amazon.com/Santamedical-Generation-SM-165-Fingertip-Saturation/dp/B00R59OTOC/ref=sr_1_6_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1487644208&sr=8-6&keywords=bluetooth+pulse+oximeter https://www.amazon.com/Santamedical-Generation-SM-165-Finger...