Fingertip Pulse Oximeters – Who Should Own One?
Pulse oximeters are so inexpensive now everyone should own one. If you own a thermometer, you should own a finger pulse oximeter. Items that give us our vital readings are important to have. You never know when they are needed. Lets say your daughter comes home from school wheezing, wouldn’t it be nice to clip a device on her finger and see what her oxygen levels are before you head to the doctor’s office. Maybe your husband says he thinks he is having a heart attack. All you need to do is put the unit on his fingertip and check out his heart rate. Monitors are becoming so inexpensive they should be kept in your medicine cabinet next to the thermometer. So many people are not aware that there are other monitors out there. There are many monitors offered to the public that were not a few years back. Today we can check our temperature, heart rate, oxygen level, blood pressure, and other vital signs right from home. It took a while but now many athletes carry pulse oximeters with them to
