Oximeter alarm too loud

I use a Contec Model CMS 50-F wrist oximeter and thought it might be good to use the alarm feature to waken me as soon as the oxilevel drops, but my wife can hear the alarm too, so it is disturbing to her. Does anyone know of a way to use an earphone with this model of meter? I tried using the Sp02 monitoring software but I can not see a way to enable the alarm to sound at the computer (so I could connect an earphone to the computer).

Any ideas?

The CMS 50E (POS) I have you can turn off the low O2 alarm in the alarm part of the menu. You can't turn off the alarm for when you accidentally knock it off during a record session.

Could you muffle the sound with some tape. Just enough so your wife can sleep.

Hi Gorrilla

I have a CMS-60D, which I think is pretty much the same as yours, but there are obviously some differences.

I only use the alarm when I am having a daytime nap, but the setting is for all circumstances if I have it turned on. I have it turned off for night-time use, mainly to save the battery and alarm when I take it off during the night to go the the bathroom.

However, my alarm is set at SPO2 88. And when sleeping with my machine on, and connected to the CMS-60D when sleeping, I have found that when checking the software report in the morning I never go below SPO2 88, so even if the alarm was on, it would not sound. I usually average an SPO2 of 97 - 93 during the night. I never go below SPO2 90 when connected.

So if you can get your AHi down to a good result, and make sure your SPO2 alarm level is appropriate for you, then the alarm should normally never go off at night.

If, every time you use it, you set the time of the pulse oximeter to equal the time on the machine you will be able to get some useful comparisons with your xpap software results.

Hope this helps.

cheers

Mars