How to Use pulse oximeter in a Sentence

pulse oximeter

noun
  • You guys have been putting this pulse oximeter just like on one of his toes.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • This is a clip-on pulse oximeter to show you your blood oxygen level and heart rate.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Take pulse oximeters, which use red and infrared light to measure blood oxygen.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Then, a pulse oximeter showed his oxygen levels were dropping.
    — Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The best pulse oximeter for you is one recommended to you by your doctor.
    — Sara Hendricks, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The pair discussed something quietly, and took the pulse oximeter off and put it back on.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • This is an important point for anybody who uses a pulse oximeter.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Outfitted with a pulse oximeter, Chafin kept up with his legal work from home.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Studies found that pulse oximeter devices are less accurate for dark skin tones.
    — Amanda Su, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Her arm was hooked up to an IV with a pulse oximeter clipped to her fingertip.
    — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Some had been asked to put their fingers in a pulse oximeter, which measures blood-oxygen levels.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
  • Cohen said his doctor told him what levels to look for using the pulse oximeter that would be cause for alarm.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Using a pulse oximeter to measure oxygen levels and heart rate.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • And of course, iFixit found the pulse oximeter sensor inside.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Her doctors told her to get a pulse oximeter to monitor her blood oxygen levels.
    — Morgan Romero, oregonlive, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Keeping a pocket-sized pulse oximeter at home is easy, but checking yourself in for a night’s sleep study is hard.
    — Adrienne So, WIRED, 17 Sep. 2024
  • His wife used a pulse oximeter to measure his oxygen levels every couple of hours.
    — Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Everybody in the bubble had a pulse oximeter that measured the amount of oxygen in their blood.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Lipnick wants better pulse oximeters but worries that some of the fixes may increase costs.
    — Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Movano plans to seek FDA approval as a licensed pulse oximeter.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But the physician still did not give his mother oxygen, pointing to the pulse oximeter’s reading.
    — Donovan Thomas, ajc, 27 June 2022
  • But he was not deterred, not even when the pulse oximeter which sounds an alarm when oxygen levels get too low started beeping.
    — NBC News, 15 Oct. 2020
  • At one point, her pulse oximeter showed her oxygen level had dropped to 87, well below normal.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The pulse oximeter on his finger showed that his oxygen levels were in the mid-90s — which is normal.
    — A. Ian Wong, STAT, 8 July 2022
  • While the company sells an array of products, its bread-and-butter business is pulse oximeters.
    — The Motley Fool, Houston Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2018
  • My friend Justine, also a doctor, went to borrow a pulse oximeter for me from our friend Jon.
    — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
  • After that, the lab set up its own ratings page, a kind of Consumer Reports for pulse oximeters.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • By measuring how much of that light is absorbed, the pulse oximeter estimates how much oxygen is flowing through the blood.
    — Time, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The device includes a pulse oximeter which detects blood oxygen levels by shining a light through the wearer's skin.
    — Emma Woollacott, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • In addition to a thermometer, are there any devices that might be helpful for parents to have at home, such as a pulse oximeter?
    — Ben Tinker, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022

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