Do you have patients that have severe lung or heart disease, or that suffer from sleep apnea? Do you need to know your patient's oxygen saturation level during different times of the day? What if you could send your patient home with a wrist oximeter that monitors their oxygen saturation and pulse rate around the clock?

Studies of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have shown that they frequently develop nocturnal oxygen desaturation, as a result of alveolar hypoventilation, ventilation-perfusion mismatch and obstructive sleep apneas. Hypoxemia during sleep has been linked with cardiac arrhythmia and pulmonary hypertension. ?Little is known about their oxygen status during the various activities of daily life.? In their landmark study, Soguel Schenkel, et al. (European Respiratory Journal, 1996, 9, 2584-2589) assessed the influence of daily activities in COPD patients by comparing their oxygen saturation profile during day and night using pulse oximetry.

Pulse oximeters have advanced since this study, and their prices have declined. They are more affordable and have become a routine monitoring tool for physicians, nurses, and homecare patients. A new and recent innovation is our wrist oximeter MD300W, for around the clock monitoring of SpO2 level in patients suspected of having irregular oxygen saturation due to respiratory disease or sleep apnea syndrome.

Features:

LCD displays SpO2 and pulse rate in numeric and graphical form. SpO2 range: 0 - 99%, pulse rate range: 0-254 bpm (beats per minute); low power consumption (1 AAA battery). You can store, replay and analyze 72 hours of SpO2 and pulse rate data. Optional software and cable accessories facilitate data transfer to PC for analysis.

The MD300W is available for purchase at our website www.MedkioskInc.com. Should you find the same product anywhere else for less, we will beat the price.