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Forehead SpO 2 monitoring compared to finger SpO 2 recording in emergency transport
Author(s) -
Nuhr M.,
Hoerauf K.,
Joldzo A.,
Frickey N.,
Barker R.,
Gorove L.,
Puskas T.,
Kober A.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2004.03673.x
Subject(s) - forehead , medicine , pulse oximetry , peripheral , emergency department , pulse (music) , oxygen saturation , anesthesia , saturation (graph theory) , oxygen , surgery , optics , chemistry , organic chemistry , psychiatry , detector , physics , mathematics , combinatorics
Summary Continuous peripheral oxygen saturation monitoring using a finger pulse oximeter is standard in prehospital emergency medicine. Forehead peripheral oxygen saturation monitoring has been enhanced for better performance during movement and in cold ambient temperatures, both of which are common during emergency transport. We compared a new forehead monitor with standard finger pulse oximeter. The forehead technique had significantly fewer mean (SD) alarms per patient (3.0 (2.2)) than the finger pulse oximeter (7.8 (4.0)) and shorter durations of malfunction (76 (60) s compared to 333 (170) s) when using the finger pulse oximeter. We conclude that measuring peripheral oxygen saturation monitoring with a forehead sensor provides better monitoring quality in emergency care.