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2. What Is a Normal Oxygen Level and How Can I Check Mine? - AOL

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   How to check blood oxygen using a pulse oximeter. Although they were scarce early in the pandemic, pulse oximeters are now easy to find. (An Amazon search returns 1,000 results.) Many are battery ...

3. The problem with pulse oximeters your doctor probably ... - AOL

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   Pulse oximeters came along in the 1980s as an easy and painless alternative. The device shines a light through the fingertip, seeking out oxygen-rich blood.

4. 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]

5. CO-oximeter - Wikipedia

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   Finger tip carboxyhemoglobin saturation monitor.. A CO-oximeter is a device that measures the oxygen carrying state of hemoglobin in a blood specimen, including oxygen-carrying hemoglobin (O2Hb), non-oxygen-carrying but normal hemoglobin (HHb) (formerly, but incorrectly, referred to as 'reduced' hemoglobin), as well as the dyshemoglobins such as carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) and methemoglobin (MetHb).

6. Photoplethysmogram - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] A PPG is often obtained by using a pulse oximeter which illuminates the skin and measures changes in light absorption. [3] A conventional pulse oximeter monitors the perfusion of blood to the dermis and subcutaneous tissue of the skin. Finger pulse oximeter. With each cardiac cycle the heart pumps blood to the periphery. Even though ...

7. Study: Ineffective blood oxygen readers have endangered Black ...

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   Pulse oximeters are more likely to produce inaccurate blood oxygen results in Black, Latino and Asian Americans than in white patients, delaying Covid-19 treatment.