Contents | (Visit Preferences to set your user name.) | Related To Pulse Oximmetry | RecentChanges | Preferences | Index | Login | Logout
Pulse Oximetry
Subjects > Health (Search)
What is pulse oximetry?
A pulse oximeter lets you monitor your blood oxygen saturation. A pulse oximeter enables you to administer precisely the amount of supplemental oxygen you need (and no more), often allowing you to stretch your oxygen supply considerably.
Ideally, the use of supplemental oxygen should bring oxygen saturation up to the saturation level you normally have at your home elevation. However, this would require a substantial oxygen flow rate and shorten the duration of your oxygen system considerably. Therefore, here are my recommendations for using supplemental oxygen in-flight by reference to a pulse oximeter:
- If your saturation level drops to 5 percentage points below your normal home saturation level, you should use supplemental oxygen to keep it from dropping further.
- If your oxygen saturation drops to 10 percentage points below your normal home saturation level, you must use supplemental oxygen to raise your saturation to within 5 points of your normal home saturation level.
Bobsgear - Get A Free
Enterrpise Wiki Space!
Review: The Bobsgear Project was
started to develop a variety of Confluence
plugins. This installation of
the Confluence Enterprise wiki includes flexible
attachments, many Confluence plugins, personal blogs,
interesting articles, and more. Bobsgear already has spaces related to
politics, art and
photography wiki,
technical issues wiki,
ediscovery wiki, health,
Christian theology and Sabbath
School wiki, the
bible, book reviews,
and quotations. Bobsgear
allows free signup, and invites anyone to create a
free hosted Confluence wiki space.
NEW
USERS CLICK HERE! for a quick introduction to
Wiki.
Interested in CommercialWikiSiteDirectory?
![[Home]](/wiki.gif)
Pulse Oximmetry