Medical Clothes Peg

[xstitcher]

What does the cloths peg like thing measure that the doctor or nurse puts on your finger and then numbers come up on a little monitor?

[slaney]

Pulse oximeter

[SlackAlice]

There you go,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_oximetry

Nice description by the way ☺

[pixie373]

It measures oxygen saturation in the blood. Should be as close to 100% as possible.

[gingejbee]

...and, did you know, that you can buy your very own pulse ox in Lidl at the moment....£19.99. Quite what you do with the results at home is a puzzle!

[xstitcher]

It might be a good gift idea for a hypocondriac gingejbee!

[Peter Pedant]

Pulse rate and saturation

in air 21% anything above 97% is OK


I must go down to Lidl - thanks - In chronic lung disease (wh I have) it is quite useful to show disease progression - or that you have got acutely worse. Measure and remeasure after going up a flight of stairs.

[Peter Pedant]

used is assessing severity of chest infection in children

I was gonna say resp rate and sat but I thought I should get a reference

http://www.wsh.nhs.uk/childrensservices/docs/pathways/wshtickboxtrafficlightsystemv13.pdf