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2. Oxygen saturation (medicine) - Wikipedia

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   The human body requires and regulates a very precise and specific balance of oxygen in the blood. Normal arterial blood oxygen saturation levels in humans are 96–100 percent. [1] If the level is below 90 percent, it is considered low and called hypoxemia. [2] Arterial blood oxygen levels below 80 percent may compromise organ function, such as ...

3. Oakland clinic gets medical device maker to disclose risk of ...

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   The pulse oximeter, a device that measures the degree to which red blood cells are saturated with oxygen, is one of healthcare's most fundamental tools. Oakland clinic gets medical device maker to ...

4. Point-of-care testing - Wikipedia

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   Similarly, pulse oximetry can test arterial oxygen saturation in a quick, simple, noninvasive, affordable way today, but in earlier eras this required an intra-arterial needle puncture and a laboratory test; and rapid diagnostic tests such as malaria antigen detection tests or COVID-19 rapid tests that rely on a state of the art in immunology ...

5. Pulse oximetry - Wikipedia

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   A pulse oximeter probe applied to a person's finger. A pulse oximeter is a medical device that indirectly monitors the oxygen saturation of a patient's blood (as opposed to measuring oxygen saturation directly through a blood sample) and changes in blood volume in the skin, producing a photoplethysmogram that may be further processed into other measurements. [4]

6. Doctors: Trump's blood oxygen level dropped twice recently - AOL

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   Blood oxygen saturation is a key health marker for COVID-19 patients. A normal reading is between 95 and 100. ... “Our plan for today is to have him eat and drink, to be up out of bed as much as ...

7. Monitoring (medicine) - Wikipedia

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   Blood pressure can be measured either invasively through an inserted blood pressure transducer assembly, or noninvasively with an inflatable blood pressure cuff. Respiratory monitoring, such as: Pulse oximetry which involves measurement of the saturated percentage of oxygen in the blood, referred to as SpO2, and measured by an infrared finger cuff