Prehospital pulse oximetry: Useful or misused?

✍ Scribed by Rita K Cydulka; Bruce Shade; Charles L Emerman; Howard Gersham; John Kubincanek

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 470 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1097-6760
• DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(05)82778-7

✦ Synopsis

Study objective: This study evaluated the ability of emergency medical technicians (EMT-As) and emergency medical techniciansparamedics (EMT-Ps) to use pulse oximetry measurements in determining patient oxygen requirements.