How To Get Your Pulse Ox Up

Your nurse will put a small clip like device called a pulse oximeter on your finger toe or ear.

How to get your pulse ox up. To get the most accurate reading on a pulse oximeter there are a few simple steps according to the world health organization position the probe correctly. Or they ll put a sticky disposable probe on your finger nose toe or forehead. Unpackage the two aaa batteries that came with the device and install them. Device will shut off automatically when not in use.

During a pulse oximetry reading a small clamp like device is placed on a finger earlobe or toe. Remove the pulse ox device from its box and remove the silicone casing. These devices which usually cost 25 to 100 use small beams of light that pass through your finger to measure how much oxygen your blood is carrying also known as your blood saturation level. Small beams of light pass through the blood in the finger measuring the amount of oxygen.

Pulse oximetry is a noninvasive method for monitoring a person s oxygen saturation though its reading of peripheral oxygen saturation spo 2 is not always identical to the more desirable reading of arterial oxygen saturation sao 2 from arterial blood gas analysis the two are correlated well enough that the safe convenient noninvasive inexpensive pulse oximetry method is valuable for. You can look for pulse oximeters on the fda cleared list by visiting the fda s premarket notification website and searching for pulse oximeter in the device name field with or without a. Different models may have a button to turn on the device.