Things You Have To Know About CMS Pulse Oximeters

By Marylou Forbes


Detecting unsafe degree of oxygen level in your blood is what pulse oximeters mainly does. Most of them sounds an alarm to let you know if your blood contains a dangerous degree of oxygen, like CMS pulse oximeters did. This is not really an invasive kind of tool, which means it does not require you to put it inside your body.

For the device to detect the level of oxygen in your bloodstream it emits two lights, one light is red and the other is infrared and these lights will pass through the hemoglobin of the blood. Every blood has hemoglobin on it which carries oxygen. An oxygenated hemoglobin can absorb more infrared light while letting the red light pass through it. On the other hand, a deoxygenated hemoglobin works in an opposite manner. To calculate the level of oxygenation in the bloodstream, a photoreceptor is added opposite of the light emitter to calculate the oxygenation that is present.

This device is commonly attached in the finger or earlobe where a good blood flow is present. For infants, across a foot can be good place as well. Putting it on a different area where it does not have a good flow can create an inaccurate result.

How the device got its name is very straightforward. Basically, it is just an oxygen meter which if combined is oximeter. It was named on the late 1940s by a British researcher and after that, the device was modified through the years to make sure that the result will be as accurate as possible.

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.

There are also some other ways to test the oxygenation level of your blood. If you happen to know about ABG Testing, this test can come up with the same result as the oximeter do but works in a different way. The ABG needs to draw a small amount of blood to your body to begin the test and it takes a lot of time too just to gain results.

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.

Over the decades, the garnered tons of popularity and is now being commonly used. Some hospitals used the to treat pneumonia and even check the oxygen level of the patient in real time. Certainly, it is very good enough considering the benefits it provides in a small amount of time.




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