Artificial acrylic finger nails may alter pulse oximetry measurement

Resuscitation

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-82

  Hinkelbein, Jochen ^a   Koehler, Heike ^a   Genzwuerker, Harald V ^a   Fiedler, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acrylic artificial finger nails; Arterial blood gas analysis; Measurement error; Monitoring; Pulse oximetry

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC ACID; COLORING AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOXIMETRY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ERROR; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE OXIMETER; PULSE OXIMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ACRYLATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COSMETICS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; OXIMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34249994094     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.11.018     Document Type: Article

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