Abstract
A healthy patient who was undergoing cystoscopy suddenly showed a rapid increase in heart rate on a pulse oximeter. The cause was determined to be incident light from the light source for the cystoscope.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 210-211 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Journal of Clinical Monitoring |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 1 1987 |
Keywords
- Equipment: alarms
- Measurement techniques: pulse oximetry
- Monitoring: oxygen
- fiberoptic light
- interference
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
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