1. Pulse oximetry-To bleep or not to bleep?
- Author
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Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, H. Lonnée, and Erik R Isern
- Subjects
medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,General Medicine ,Norwegian ,Visual scale ,medicine.disease ,language.human_language ,03 medical and health sciences ,Pulse oximetry ,0302 clinical medicine ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Register (music) ,medicine ,language ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Medical emergency ,business - Abstract
Norwegian anaesthesiologists use a pulse oximeter for each and every case in the operating theatre. However, we suspected that most rely on the visual scale and alarm only (routinely set at 90% at our institution), and that the variable pitch sound of the pulse oximeter is not routinely audible during anaesthesia. In order to verify this, a short survey (3 questions) was emailed to all registered anaesthesiologists (specialists and trainees) in Norway during September 2020. The sample was based on the Norwegian Society of Anaesthesiology membership register, which includes both clinically active and non-active members.
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- 2020