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Each RBC has proteins called hemoglobin. If you picture a train, the RBC is the oxygen “boxcar.”. A pulse oximeter works by shining a tiny red light and a tiny infrared light through the blood vessels of your finger. RBCs with empty boxcars absorb more of the red light and RBCs that are carrying oxygen absorb more of the infrared light.
Dear Curious, A pulse oximeter can be a very useful tool for a COPD patient, providing you use it correctly and realize it has limitations. The pulse oximeter measures two distinct things: The first number that comes up is most often the pulse rate. Usually this number is marked by a small heart. The second number that comes up is the level of ...
Hi guys. I would like to ask. Can we use pulse oxymeter during walking? Thank you. Here is my result of the pulse oxymeter that I took while on sitting down. I Care. Report. Elizabeth Benkert, CharlesH, Gretchen McCreary and 9 other people care about this. Add an Answer.
The pulse oximeter can lose some of its accuracy if your fingers are cold, if your blood pressure is low, if you are moving around a bit, or if you have on dark nail polish. Any one of these conditions might create a low oxygen level on your monitor. If you don’t know to warm up your hands, or if you don’t realize your blood pressure is low ...
Burma 6 years ago. I was wondering if anyone has had problems with read outs on their pulse Oximeters. I had a "sleep test" with the oximeter and the next morning, my finger was swollen, red, and blue. I did not get good numbers. When I explained this to the doctor, he ordered another sleep test with a different probe.
Doug R 1 year ago. Any recommendations for a pulse-ox device that can continuously record my oxygen saturation levels during normal activity and exercise and which can alert me if my oxygen levels have dropped below a preset threshold (88). I have read that sunlight and motion are both issues for pulse-ox. I did buy one with a recording device ...
Report. Forgeti5, Jan Cotton-Illinois State Captain, Kandy State Captain of South Dakota and 11 other people care about this. Add an Answer. Add an Answer. AnswerResultCount. Why am I full of anxiety - my oximeter reads 98% and my pulse is at 85 - yet I’m full of anxiety I’m trying to quit smoking - yet when I smoke i ….
There is a very good reason for this and it is really based on simple mechanics. Oxygen concentrators all work pretty much the same. The ambient air we breathe contains about 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 1% of other gasses. The concentrator has the job of taking as much of the nitrogen out of the air as is possible while leaving the oxygen.
For most "high flow" patients, most often a pulse unit is not an answer. Too often, it is assumed that a pulse unit that has settings of 5 or 6 indicates that this is the liter flow, which is not the case. I’ll explain. Continuous Flow units are rated in Liters per minute. Because pulse units do not put out continuous oxygen, they cannot be ...