動脈血酸素飽和度測定装置の耳鼻咽喉科領域での使用経験

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Recently, we had opportunity to use an oxygen saturation pulse oxymeter (minolta pulsox-7) which is a compact, light-weight device and allows continuous, percutaneous easy determination of arterial blood oxygen saturation.
We obtained the following results from clinical application of this device in the field of otorhinolarygology.
1. There was a high coefficient of correlation (0.899) between the values of oxygen saturation determined with a Minolta Pulsox-7 and an arterial blood gas analyzer.
2. This instrument was simple to handle and was clinically applicable, and seems to be highly useful for a) timing of tracheostomy, b) objective evaluation of dypnea, c) moniter of nasal surgery under local anesthesia.