Reusable pulse oximeter probe and disposable bandage method
First Claim
1. The method of facilitating the intra-departmental or inter-institutional transport of a patient or patients requiring the pulse oximeter monitoring, and wherein said pulse oximeters used for monitoring said patient may be of different manufacturers, comprising:
- affixing to said patient a bandage apparatus having a modular emitter and detector receptacles incorporated thereon, providing each said different manufacturers'"'"' pulse oximeter probe with modular housings adapted to matedly engage and/or disengage said receptacles of said disposable bandage apparatus, thus enabling said patient to be monitored by pulse oximeters of different manufacturers without changing said bandage apparatus.
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Abstract
A method of facilitating the intra-departmental or inter-institutional transport of a patient or patients requiring the pulse oximeter monitoring, and wherein the pulse oximeters used for monitoring the patient may be of different manufacturers, comprising affixing to the patient a bandage apparatus having a modular emitter and detector receptacles incorporated thereon. Each different manufacturers pulse oximeter probe is provided with modular housings adapted to matedly engage and/or disengage the receptacles of the disposable bandage apparatus, thus enabling the patient to be monitored by pulse oximeters of different manufacturers without changing the bandage apparatus.
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1. The method of facilitating the intra-departmental or inter-institutional transport of a patient or patients requiring the pulse oximeter monitoring, and wherein said pulse oximeters used for monitoring said patient may be of different manufacturers, comprising:
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affixing to said patient a bandage apparatus having a modular emitter and detector receptacles incorporated thereon, providing each said different manufacturers'"'"' pulse oximeter probe with modular housings adapted to matedly engage and/or disengage said receptacles of said disposable bandage apparatus, thus enabling said patient to be monitored by pulse oximeters of different manufacturers without changing said bandage apparatus.
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2. For use with an MRI machine where no ferrous material can be located and in which a pulse oximeter is located at some remote location from the MRI machine and fiberoptic cables connect the light-emitter and detector of the pulse oximeter to the patient, and the patient is fitted with a oximeter bandage in which there are receptacles positioned on each side of a digit of the patient, the improvement wherein said fiberoptic cable has at its end, a pair of housings, one housing adapted to serve as a light-emitter and the other housing adapted to serve as light receptor and adapted to be inserted into said receptacles on said bandage.
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