please recommend good pulse oximeters with sd cards

Goofproof wrote: ....I stagger three OTC drugs one per hour ....

Which ones?

Or maybe one that will tell me when my blood gas goes below a certain level?

I'm also in the market. I recently emailed Kevin Cooper at Cooper Medical Supplies. He advised me that the CMS 50e has an alarm which you can set to go off if your oxygen saturation goes below a certain level, as well as tracking the levels for you to download. He says that the screen is relatively easy to read and it uses a rechargeable battery.

Good luck, Happy Sleeper

Elena,
IMHO you could get a USB hub that would sit up by your keyboard that has more than one hookup. Then when you want to download pictures of those cute "grands" you wouldn't have to disturb Charlotte. Well okay maybe once to hook the Hub into the back of your computer.
Shar:)

roster wrote:

Goofproof wrote: ....I stagger three OTC drugs one per hour ....

Which ones?

I start with Members Mark (Sam's Club), Loratadine 10 mg, Antihistamine.
One hour later, Members Mark (Sam's Club), Nasal Decongestant PE, Phenylephrine HCI Tablets 10 mg.
One Hour later (Bedtime), One Advil Cold & Sinus (Non-Drowsy) Pseudoephedrine HCI tablets 30 mg
or One Sudafed Max Strength Non-Drowsy, Pseudoephedrine HCI tablets 30 mg. These are the kind you have to
sign for....

This keeps me going with my XPAP all night with limited bother, still only have one side open at a time
but get enough air. O2 levels stay at 88 to 91 at night. Jim

happysleeper wrote:

Or maybe one that will tell me when my blood gas goes below a certain level?

I'm also in the market. I recently emailed Kevin Cooper at Cooper Medical Supplies. He advised me that the CMS 50e has an alarm which you can set to go off if your oxygen saturation goes below a certain level, as well as tracking the levels for you to download. He says that the screen is relatively easy to read and it uses a rechargeable battery.

Good luck, Happy Sleeper

I just bought this one from Kevin, I am 100% pleased with this product and his service. Jim

happysleeper wrote:I recently emailed Kevin Cooper at Cooper Medical Supplies. He advised me that the CMS 50e has an alarm which you can set to go off if your oxygen saturation goes below a certain level,

Hey, so what do you all do when your alarm goes off in the middle of the night? Have an O2 machine on hand? I ask this in all seriousness.

plr66 wrote:

happysleeper wrote:I recently emailed Kevin Cooper at Cooper Medical Supplies. He advised me that the CMS 50e has an alarm which you can set to go off if your oxygen saturation goes below a certain level,

Hey, so what do you all do when your alarm goes off in the middle of the night? Have an O2 machine on hand? I ask this in all seriousness.

Last Saturday night our power went out in the late afternoon and did not come on until mid Sunday morning. Around midnight, I propped up in a chair listening to radio in the dark and doing a little light reading. I tried to stay awake all night, but, as expected, I fell asleep a few times. Each time the pulse-oximeter alarm would awaken me before things got too rough.

I felt reasonably good the next morning considering I had dozed a few times without CPAP and otherwise had not slept all night. Without that alarm, I am sure my dozings would have been longer and I would have felt like crap Sunday morning.

The pulse alarm was actually what was beneficial to me. My pulse when sleeping with CPAP is usually in the low sixties, so I set the alarm at 85 and that is what woke me each time. I had the oximeter alarm set at 89 and my O2 stats never fell that low.

plr66, That is not quite what you asked, but it is an example of how I benefitted from my pulse-oximeter.

And, oh yes, it was tough staying awake that Sunday until my regular bedtime.

plr66 wrote:

happysleeper wrote:I recently emailed Kevin Cooper at Cooper Medical Supplies. He advised me that the CMS 50e has an alarm which you can set to go off if your oxygen saturation goes below a certain level,

Hey, so what do you all do when your alarm goes off in the middle of the night? Have an O2 machine on hand? I ask this in all seriousness.

I don't turn the alarm on, it might wake me. The O2 level is set at 88%, the first night I went under that 6 times once to 79, I don't feel that matters much as it's only a few seconds until it comes back. I've also got a probably defective DeFib installed it's never went off, for that I'm thankful, but due to my experences at the hospital, when they tried to test it, I don't think it ever worked. They tested it twice by telling it to fire, (they said it would hurt, and it would have), it didn't hurt, they sure did have funny looks on their faces when they didn't get any results. Then they told me it was OK. Doctors and Lawyers go to the same Lying Classes, taught be DME's I think. Four months I was sent a letter that the DeFib leads I received had been showing up defective, they had made over 250,000 of them. They can't be removed safely, I loose!!! Jim

Based upon what you say:

Incredible!!

Poor product design + negligent quality control + incompetence + lying to cover-up

Plus, since it's never worked and you haven't died, you may not have needed the defib in the first place.

They can't be removed safely, I loose!!! Jim

I'll bet you wouldn't lose a lawsuit.

M.D.Hosehead wrote:Based upon what you say:

Incredible!!

Poor product design + negligent quality control + incompetence + lying to cover-up

Plus, since it's never worked and you haven't died, you may not have needed the defib in the first place.

They can't be removed safely, I loose!!! Jim

I'll bet you wouldn't lose a lawsuit.

Every three months, it's data is downloaded by the Doctor and the manufacturer, and they always reset some settings. (Got to look like they are doing something on paper for the INS check.)
I have a modem that uploads data to their computer every 6 months. I need a way to get that data and have it read by a medical professional that I can trust that has my best interest at heart. My Pacer doctor is going to change soon, I don't think I'm the only one that has a issue with him. When he installed the unit, he didn't manage the pain, basically he torchered me until I passed out, from burning the bleeders in the pocket he made for the unit.

It's not his fault directly that I got defective leads, it was a new product with a smaller dia that made the install easier, the product passed the good old boys at the FDA, after all they weren't going to be using it themselves.

The worse decision I ever made was to let them implant this DeFib unit, I understand why if you need a Pacer it's vital to get it, but the Defib is aPig in a Poke, even if it does what's it's supposed to the odd's that it will help you get to the hospital alive are 30%. Not very good odd's, now the leads are turning the defib's on when the are not needed, and killing the wearer. Jim