How to Use pulse oximeter in a Sentence

pulse oximeter

noun

• But what if my friend hadn’t dropped off the pulse oximeter?
  — Pooja Yerramilli, STAT, 17 Apr. 2020
• You guys have been putting this pulse oximeter just like on one of his toes.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• This is a clip-on pulse oximeter to show you your blood oxygen level and heart rate.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 10 Dec. 2020
• In White patients, the pulse oximeter gave a misleading number 3.6% of the time.
  — Jacque Smith, CNN, 20 Feb. 2021
• The pair discussed something quietly, and took the pulse oximeter off and put it back on.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• Morales knelt down and put a pulse oximeter onto his finger.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Movano plans to seek FDA approval as a licensed pulse oximeter.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2023
• The pulse oximeter on his finger showed that his oxygen levels were in the mid-90s — which is normal.
  — A. Ian Wong, STAT, 8 July 2022
• And of course, iFixit found the pulse oximeter sensor inside.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2020
• Everybody in the bubble had a pulse oximeter that measured the amount of oxygen in their blood.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2021
• And on the Series 6, Apple added the ability to perform what a pulse oximeter does.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 24 Sep. 2020
• His 33-year-old son-in-law’s blood oxygen dipped to 92 at some points, according to an at-home pulse oximeter.
  — Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2021
• The best pulse oximeter for you is one recommended to you by your doctor.
  — Sara Hendricks, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2020
• Cohen said his doctor told him what levels to look for using the pulse oximeter that would be cause for alarm.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 31 Mar. 2020
• Take pulse oximeters, which use red and infrared light to measure blood oxygen.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
• My friend Justine, also a doctor, went to borrow a pulse oximeter for me from our friend Jon.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• Outfitted with a pulse oximeter, Chafin kept up with his legal work from home.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• But the physician still did not give his mother oxygen, pointing to the pulse oximeter’s reading.
  — Donovan Thomas, ajc, 27 June 2022
• Some had been asked to put their fingers in a pulse oximeter, which measures blood-oxygen levels.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• At 9:52, Higgins said, the video showed the technician coming back into the room and adjusting the pulse oximeter on the baby’s foot.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• Ultimately, the pulse oximeter can estimate the amount of oxygen in the blood without the need for a blood sample.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
• Along with fitness stats, the Charge 4 can also track your pulse oximeter measurements to tell you how much oxygen is in your blood.
  — Melissa Lee, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2021
• The emergency room sent him home with an inhaler to help with his breathing and a pulse oximeter to measure the level of oxygen in his blood.
  — USA Today, 14 Mar. 2021
• In the absence of a pulse oximeter, one rough measure of respiratory function is a self-test called the Roth score.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• At one point, her pulse oximeter showed her oxygen level had dropped to 87, well below normal.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
• Then, a pulse oximeter showed his oxygen levels were dropping.
  — Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2020
• The provider sent her a pulse oximeter to check her blood oxygen level and report the reading during their calls, a standard practice.
  — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021
• Using a pulse oximeter to measure oxygen levels and heart rate.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Research dating back to 1990 found that inaccurate pulse oximeter readings were more common in Black patients than non-Black ones.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• This is the same method used by the Apple Watch and other devices to measure heart rate, and by the pulse oximeters that became popular during the Covid-19 pandemic to record the level of saturation, or oxygenation, of the blood.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024