Jp. Benson et al., MISLEADING INFORMATION FROM PULSE OXIMETRY AND THE USEFULNESS OF CONTINUOUS BLOOD-GAS MONITORING IN A POST-CARDIAC SURGERY PATIENT, Intensive care medicine, 21(5), 1995, pp. 437-439
We report a case where misleading readings form a pulse oximeter were
compared with the results obtained from a continuous multiparameter bl
ood gas sensor (Paratrend 7 - Biomedical Sensors UK). The continuous m
ode of recording was useful in determining the right clinical course f
or the patient and serves to show how pulse oximetry may demonstrate m
isleading results in low flow states.