Discover More About CMS Pulse Oximeters

By Marylou Forbes


Pulse oximeter is a tool to calculate the volume of oxygen present in your blood. Most recent models of these devices like the CMS pulse oximeters has an alarm that triggers when the oxygen level of the user is dropping into a none safe level. The good thing about this device is that, it does not necessarily need to introduce the instrument into your body to start taking tests.

The device works in a simple way. There are two lights that are equipped to it, an infrared and a red light, which is produced by the light emitter. Two different lights well try to pass into the hemoglobin of the users blood. If a certain hemoglobin is oxygenated, it consumes more infrared and let the red light go through while the deoxygenated hemoglobin works in a complete opposite way. For the tool to compute the oxygenation level, a photoreceptor catches the emitted light and count the oxygenation that is present.

Most people attached this in a body part where there is a good blood flow. For babies, across its foot is a good part to secure it in, this ensures an accurate result. You can also put this in your earlobe or your fingertips where a perfect bloodstream is present.

Oximeter comes from the phrase oxygen meter, which basically what the gadget do. The person who coined the name is a British researcher way back 1940s. The system went through a lot of modifications to ensure it provides an almost perfect result.

The good thing about the device is that, it is portable. Before, the device is huge that it seems to be not that useful as if it is today. The rapid improvement of technology was able to decrease the size of the tool by integrating nanotechnology into it.

The advantage of having this gadget is that it is very cost effective. Having it in the palm of your hand keeps you from rushing into hospitals everytime you want to check if you are still at the level where it is safe. You can just do it in your home without wasting money for frequent check ups.

It does save a lot of time too. Imagine that you are going to the hospital for ABG or Arterial Blood Gas testing wherein they need to draw a small volume of your blood first to test your blood oxygen level. It may take a couple of minutes or so, but knowing the fact that you have to travel first before you can have the test can be absolutely time consuming.

Some people are very happy with the tool but we cannot deny the fact that some people can be of doubt. Skeptics said that the instrument can have inaccurate results if a florescent light is present. To prove this, tests were conducted. After the tests, it came up that the florescent light does not really alters or somehow change the efficiency of the tool.

The gadget swiftly gained popularity. It is now commonly used in most hospitals and is used to monitor patients with oxygen starvation in real time too. Obviously, it is very convenient and is easy to use. No wonder it gains a surge of popularity.




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