Oxygen Monitor Finger Devices

Portable medical and safety devices such as oxygen monitor finger devices (also known as finger pulse oximeters), blood sugar and blood pressure monitors, are increasingly seeing more and more use at home mainly because they have been developed into dependable devices that can provide accurate and precise readings.

A finger oxygen monitor is basically a device that lets you measure the oxygen content of the blood. It is basically a home version of pulse oximeters that can usually be found in hospitals that are used to continuously monitor the oxygen saturation in the patient’s blood. They are usually used in intensive care units or in pre or post operative wards to determine whether patients will have need for oxygen breathing supplements to maintain optimum levels of oxygen in the blood.

For personal or home use, you can use finger oxygen saturation monitors to help you monitor your blood oxygen levels along with other parameters like heart rate while exercising or any strenuous activities, while traveling via an airplane (useful for both passengers, pilot and crew), or while on a sporting activity like mountain climbing, etc.

For home use, it can be used as it is being used in medical institutions--- to monitor vital health parameters (e.g. blood saturation) of anyone who is in any sort of compromised state of health.

These days, personal finger oxygen monitors for home or portable usage can be easily acquired online. There are plenty of options for anyone looking so the main problem would be how to choose from the hundreds of choices you will have when you start looking.

One way to help you narrow down your choices is to go ask for recommendations from current users. Or better yet, go to your doctor and ask which one he or she recommends. Another way is to read up on online reviews from previous buyers. You can see a lot of user reviews from online stores like Amazon which carries about a couple of dozen different brands and models.

Once you have narrowed down your choices, it is good to take a closer look of the items themselves to see if they carry features that you actually want or need in a finger pulse oximeter.

Take the case of the Nonin GO2 Achieve Fingertip Pulse Oximeter which is one of the best reviewed models being offered on Amazon.

It offers continuous measurement of blood saturation so it can give up-to-date and accurate readings and get alerted immediately when it goes to abnormal levels. It features a bigger LCD display (illuminated by a LED back lights) compared to other brands. It uses the ubiquitous AAA battery and sports a handy battery level indicator.

It boasts of a very high accuracy that gives very close replicate measurements (+/- 1% SPO2) and gives other diagnostics such as a pulse strength indicator to help you determine whether the reading is of acceptable quality.

Another one that is showing some good reviews is the Concord Emerald finger oxygen monitor which also offers oxygen saturation and pulse rate monitoring. It boasts of a well-designed one button operation that has an auto power-off feature to save on battery. It also claims high degree of accuracy in its measurements on both SpO2 and pulse or heart rate.

It is also quite durable and boasts of a very shock resistant, rugged design which makes it an ideal mountain climbing gear.

Best of all, it claims to last for 30 hours on 2 AAA penlight size batteries.