What is the plastic clothes-pin-like thing that they put on a persons finger whe!


Question: I see it on all the soaps, it goes on the end of the person's finger and there is wa wire attatched to it. What does it do?


Answers: I see it on all the soaps, it goes on the end of the person's finger and there is wa wire attatched to it. What does it do?

It measures the person's oxygen saturation in their blood. It lets the doctor know if the person needs to be on oxygen or not.

It's a pulse ox. It tells your pulse and what percent oxygen is getting in your blood.

monitors your heart





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