Newbie with wireless oximeter question

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Cindy

Newbie with wireless oximeter question

Post by Cindy » Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:34 pm

I just started cpap and they gave me a very plain machine with no software capabilities. I am interested to rent or purchase an oximeter. At the sleep lab they used one where the finger device was attached to the meter with a cable. Are there models with finger device reporting wireless to the meter?

Thanks for your help.


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Post by NightHawkeye » Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:53 pm

Doing an internet search provides several models, Cindy, including one by Nonin. Others are from start-ups and companies I didn't recognize. None of the oximeters are what I'd call truly wireless, as they all seem to use a finger-probe unit in conjunction with a wrist-band unit. Also, don't expect to get one cheap. None of the ones I saw are geared toward the consumer market.

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Wireless Oximeter

Post by brasshopper » Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:05 pm

Do you really anticipate that one wire will cause you that much trouble? The problem I would see is that the wireless unit would have to have a fair amount of battery to keep the led(s) lit all night - and to transmit.

I really hate programming for Windows - I have spent hours on trying to deal with one stupid net2 configuration issue, and I am giving up and going back to basics. On Linux I would have had a program written to timestamp beat-to-beat output for the N-200 - hours ago. Windows, well, the so-called easy to use Visual C++ Express Edition is just plain painful.