Many university hospitals around the nation serve a very important function of providing the health care to their respective communities. In addition to being an area of learning where medical students are trained, the hospitals are actually key in delivering the most critical of care for those individuals with various health conditions. One of the trends in recent years with these health care facilities has actually been to provide their medical students with the latest in pulse oximeter technology in order to better equip them to serve patients. A pulse
oximeter has been around in the hospital setting for decades. But the modern advancements in the device have really changed the landscape of the medical device market. Today’s devices are completely portable as opposed to the older generations and they can be taken easily from one point to another. The previous generations of pulse oximeter devices were very bulky and large. They tended to remain in one location and not be moved because essentially they were very large. The most important function that the device serves is that it offers an accurate way of continuously measuring pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation within seconds. The importance of the concept of continuous comes into play when you are actually needing to measure your vital signs on an extended period of time. Say for example that a patient checks into the university hospital and is suffering from a cardiac condition. By hooking them up to the device you can actually monitor their pulse rate for hours on end and if there is anything abnormal about its rhythm or condition then an alarm function will begin to sound. This is very important because medical students have always been in the need to have devices that were portable and able to be taken anywhere that you wanted to go.
