{"id":339,"date":"2022-12-05T12:49:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2022-12-05T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T19:04:21","slug":"pulse-oximetry-in-a-school-nurses-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/05\/pulse-oximetry-in-a-school-nurses-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulse Oximetry in a School Nurse’s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Is it needed?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A pulse oximeter is a quick, inexpensive, and needle-free device that measures the amount of oxygen saturating a patients blood. Evidence suggests utilizing a pulse oximeter with children can accurately aid in diagnosing children with previously unrecognized hypoxemia (view the study<\/a>). It is important to measure the oxygen saturation of children with asthma. While children exhibiting a bad (but quick) asthma attack can have normal oxygen saturation levels, a patient that has been overworking themself to breathe for an extended period of time will eventually tire out and oxygen levels will begin to drop. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Within a school nurse’s office is an array of vital sign monitoring equipment. However, many offices are missing a pulse oximeter to accurately measure the severity of an attack. With a low SpO2 level, students without access to an emergency inhaler would require immediate attention. Our highlighted pulse oximeter this week is the Creative SP-20 Pulse Oximeter<\/a> can be used for spot checking or continuous monitoring and utilizes repeated measurements within a second to detect even slight changes in the patients oxygen level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it needed? A pulse oximeter is a quick, inexpensive, and needle-free device that measures the amount of oxygen saturating a patients blood. Evidence suggests utilizing a pulse oximeter with children can accurately aid in diagnosing children with previously unrecognized hypoxemia (view the study). It is important to measure the oxygen saturation of children with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patient-monitors","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medsource-sw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}