Wednesday, June 5, 2013

CMS Pulse Oximeters Do More Than You Might Think

By Lucille Lamb


Today a lot of people are familiar with CMS pulse oximeters. For anybody who has been in a hospital, seen a family member or a friend in a hospital, you have definitely seen one on someone's finger. They are the little plastic clasp that grabs on to a persons finger and reads and records their oxygen level of saturation in their blood.

The amount of oxygen saturation that people have in their blood is an important factor in determining how their lungs are working and how their body is processing the air they breathe. While they are used in hospitals and medical centers frequently, they are also very common in the sports world and various other places.

The same has happened with CMS pulse oximeters. There are various people who are not processing oxygen the way they should and are still living at home because they are just not sick enough to be in the hospital. Yet still needing to monitor their oxygen levels their doctors suggest bringing home one of these devices.

People who are very active also want to know the same things. This is very true of athletes, both professional and semi-professional. Matter of fact, even people who just play pick up games or who are running every other morning might want to know how they are doing regarding their O2 levels and their circulation.

The access to information has also prompted companies who make devices such as these to manufacture various models that can be sold to various markets. Where they used to make them generally in a standard version for hospital use they now make them even in a bracelet or ring model for people who lead active lives.

Such devices have made it possible for people who may not have had the opportunity to play a sport due to an illness be able to play that sport. It has changed lives. They will even sometimes get a more advanced model that can record hours of data so they can later review how their numbers fluctuated during various activity levels.

It can be hard to remember what your levels are like after your workout or whatever you might be doing. A model that just shows you a real time number is fine if you just need to check it, but if you want data to review how your levels fluctuated then you really need one that can record and save the data for later review.

CMS pulse oximeters are very common in a lot of different places today and can take on a lot of different roles. From the athletic world to the medical world people want to know how well or how poorly their bodies are handling one of the most important things that we need, oxygen. These meters are great at telling us exactly what we need to know so we can adjust the intake if needed.




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