
PRINCIPLES OF SpO
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OPERATION
The
Star 55
monitor
provides continuous, non-invasive, automatically calibrated
measurements of both functional oxygen saturation of hemoglobin and pulse rate.
The instrument combines the principles of spectrophotometric oximetry and
plethysmography. It consists of an electro-optical sensor that is applied to the
patient and a microprocessor based monitor that processes and displays the
measurements. The electro-optical sensor contains two low-voltage, low intensity
light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that serve as light sources and one photodiode as a
light receiver. One LED emits red light (approximately 920nm.)
When the light from the LEDs is transmitted through the blood and the various
tissue components, a portion of it is absorbed . The photodiode in the sensor
measures the light that is transmitted, and this measurement is used to determine
how much light was absorbed.
With each heart beat, a pulse of oxygenated arterial blood flows to the sensor site.
This oxygenated hemoglobin differs from deoxygenated hemoglobin in the amount of
red and infrared light that it absorbs. The
Star 55
measures absorption of both red and
infrared light and uses those measurements to determine the percentage of functional
hemoglobin that is saturated with oxygen.
Initially, light absorption is determined when the pulsatile blood is not present. This
measurement indicates the amount of light absorbed by tissue and nonpulsatile
blood absorption that does not change substantially during the pulse. This is
analogous to the reference measurement of a spectrophotometer. Absorption is
then measured when the pulsatile blood is present. In that measurement, light
absorption at both wavelengths is changed by the presence of the pulsatile, arterial
blood. The
Star 55
then corrects the measurement obtained during the pulsatile flow for
the amount of light that was absorbed at the initial measurement. The ratio of the correct
absorption at each wavelength is then used to determine functional oxygen saturation.
PULSE OXIMETRY
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Summary of Contents for Star 55
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Page 61: ...3 2 MAIN SCREEN 1 Figure 3 1 Note Main screen when maximum i e eight waveforms are present ...
Page 62: ...Star 55 MAIN SCREEN 2 Figure 3 2 Note Main screen when maximum ECG waveforms are present 3 3 ...
Page 73: ...Star 55 4 PARAMETER SETTING 4 ...
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