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The Pulse Oximeter Is Making Surgery Safer in Developing Countries

Santamedical Pulse oximeter is a common gadget in Western clinics that could save a large number of lives if incorporated operation around the world. This device is a significant contributory factor in changing the health care and making the surgery safer in developing countries.
With the rising demand for surgery in all over the world attention is also increasing towards the surgical techniques and devices. Among the numerous gadgets, pulse oximeter is a vital device that commonly used in the operating theatres of developing countries. They use high quality pulse oximeters to monitor blood oxygenation level of the patient during operations. If the oxygen level drops down from the safer level then this device immediately alarms the doctors to take quick action. This device plays a fundamental role in various conditions like when a patient’s blood oxygenation is fluctuating, in emergency cases, during surgery and other healthcare treatments.
Pulse oximeter is very useful devices which have been saved millions of life. Basically it is a small clip that used to check the blood oxygen saturation level and pulse rate of the patient. It is worldwide used by numerous people. You can commonly see this device in hospitals, operation theaters, ambulance and emergency departments. It is a very essential device that used by doctors during performing the surgeries, as that time maintaining adequate level of patient’s pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation level is very necessary. Pulse oximetry is a key part in the transformation in anesthesia care that has diminished the death rate from anesthesia by more than 95 percent in an era. As per the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists, pulse oximeter is incorporated as a basic standard of care in all the hospitals and medical center where any kind of surgery has been conducted.
But unfortunately, the advantages of pulse oximetry have neglected in many countries all around the world. Even till now a number of low income countries have very minor access to such gadgets and they also have very little knowledge about the value of such devices. Thousands of operations are conducted there without a pulse oximeter.