Pulse Oximeter Article and The FAA’s Prote
Great article on pulse oximeters in the September 2017 issue of Aviation Consumer. I have been using them for almost two decades and keep one in my turbocharged Bonanza and another in my glider. I routinely fly in the teens and I always insist that passengers use the pulse oximeter every half hour or so just as I do.
The cheaper models seem to work as we’ll as the more expensive models, as you found, but two comments should be added. First, some smartphones do just as good a job. My Samsung Galaxy S7 is one example. It has a pulse oximeter feature and many other health monitoring metrics. I found that it calibrates very we’ll against my two dedicated pulse oximeter units and it records the readings over time.