Pulse Oximetry WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Pulse Oximetry
Pulse oximetry is a non-invasive method allowing the monitoring of the oxygenation of a patient's hemoglobin. Pulse oximetry data is necessary whenever a patient's oxygenation is unstable, including intensive care, critical care, and emergency department areas of a hospital. ...read more from Wikipedia
Fast Facts:
- It was developed in 1972 by Aoyagi at Nihon Kohden.1
- This device can measure the person's heart rate and the level of oxygen in the blood.2
- Pulse oximetry is a fast, simple, reliable, and accurate means of detecting hypoxemia.3
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Research Notes References
- ↑ Wikipedia: Pulse Oximetry
- ↑ Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics: Pulse Oximetry
- ↑ British Medical Journal: Pulse Oximetry: A Practical Review
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- Contributor: Aimee Abellaneda
- Reviewer: Amy Sandhu
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Aimee Abellaneda
- Reviewer: Amy Sandhu
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Pulse oximeter, Pulse-Ox
- Last update: May 11, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
