Been wanting one for years for my med bag, spent a decade as EMT certified with occasional to rare patient care.
A decade ago a Pulse Ox was a few hundred, I see now they are only a few bucks.
I could be dreaming but wanting a USA made pulse ox that will last a long time and give good data, maybe a common battery. It’ll live in my med bag in my truck with my blood pressure cuff and stethoscope.
I got money in my FSA so I can spend some coin.
I bought this one
ClinicalGuard CMS-50DL Fingertip Pulse Oximeter Blood Oxygen Saturation and Heart Rate Monitor with Batteries, Soft Case, Silicon Cover, Lanyard https://amazon.com/dp/B004BJT9OE/ref...ing=UTF8&psc=1
Based on this
https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-...ers_Not.9.aspx
We had some discussion in other threads on this, and I believe the consensus was the cheap ones often had the same essential guts as the ones used in hospitals.
For my purposes (first aid, emergencies where proper care is unavailable) Bluetooth alarms that are reliable are more important than anything else. Knowing you need to go check is more important than absolute accuracy. I wouldn't know how to interpret small changes in accuracy but I know when I need to go check or make a greater effort to get them to higher levels of care if possible. The situations where you'd actually need this stuff often involve severe sleep deprivation and I think that's often overlooked.
I think that’s the one I have too.Originally Posted by Bratch
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Come on man, I am trying to spend some bones here.
Thanks for the reply.
Spend the savings on tourniquets
Handy device. Tends to be overused and overvalued.
I have several in kits that were all ~$30 or less. Based on unscientific testing, they are accurate enough for most uses. Differences between the cheap and expensive seem to be speed of update, reliability and accuracy in high or low temps, durability of the plastics, and with harder to read patients. You hit a point where if you're worried about the accuracy of the ox, you probably ought to be headed for a monitor.
Devices are handy, but assess/treat the patient not the device. Skin color, mental status, dizziness, SOB, flaring, retraction, position, and some will run low(er)% as a norm. What's the patient do/look like normally? What are they doing/looking like compared to others around them?
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This is the one I picked up a few months back, I believe based on a recommendation here: https://amazon.com/gp/product/B0873BTNWD
Ken
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I bought mine at CVS with one of those 40% off coupons they throw around regularly, a few years ago.
I got another cheapie from being a study patient after I got Covid. Both seem to work equally well, and give me similar numbers as the one built into our heart monitor.
I use it ( on the ambulance) for screening more than anything else. If I'm actually worried about how a patient is breathing, I have waveform capnography available.
(Capnography measures the amount of CO2 you exhale and is a better measure of how well you're moving air)
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The greatest advice I ever received was from my physician father. He said basically this when I was entering paramedic school back in the early-mid '80s. Experience revealed, almost daily, how on point he was. I learned to assess who was "sick" and who was not in the first 30 seconds of verbal/hands on contact with the patient.
Best advice ever!
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