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Your Home Care Provider
A qualified health care professional (called ahome care provider) is essential for
providing adequate care for your patient. Your homecare provider will:
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Provide you with a monitor, pulse sensors, and accessories
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Train you how to use your monitor,sensors, and accessories
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Teach you how to respond to alarms
If you have any questions, ask your home care provider.
Definitions
Alarm
Battery Charger
ECG Monitor
Hemoglobin
Home Care Provider
Interface/Powerbase
Monitor
Oxygen Saturation
Oxygen Transducers
The tone you hear from the monitor and the indicator that
flashes when an abnormal condition is detected.
A device built inside your monitor that allows you to plug
the monitor into a standard wall socket (3 prong) and
recharge the monitor's internal battery.
A monitor that displays electrical signals from the heart,
through electrocardiogram (ECG), as heartrate (not pulse
rate).
The part of the red blood cell that carries oxygen.
Health care professional who supplies the monitor, provides
training on its use, and does follow-up and maintenance
checks.
The section of the monitor that allows AC electrical power to
be used to run the monitor.
The part of the pulse oximetry system that receives signals
from the detector on the pulse sensor. The system then
measures, displays, and compares the readings to the alarm
settings. The monitor sounds an alarm when the oxygen
saturation level or pulse rate are outside the alarm settings.
A measure of the amount of oxygen actually carriedin the
blood, compared to the amount it could carry.
See pulse sensor.
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