Maintenance and sterilizing are always hard problems for reusable spo2 sensors. Thus, a lot of hospitals prefer to use the disposable spo2 sensor.

The application of disposable spo2 sensor in NICU

(1) Severe craniocerebral trauma and a long-term stay in the intensive care unit.

(2) Brain stem damage, in a state of diencephalic tonic.

(3) Restless, the blood oxygen probe often falls off.

(4) Patients with a tracheotomy.

(5) Patients with a multidrug-resistant bacterial infection.

Advantages of disposable spo2 sensor

(1) The material of the disposable blood oxygen probe is soft and can be adjusted according to the thickness of the patient's finger. It is firmly fixed and will not form pressure ulcers after long-term use. And it does not need to replace the fingers frequently, and the patient feels comfortable.

(2) For patients with brainstem injury, the limb muscle is in high tension with flexed fingers. It is difficult for ordinary finger clip spo2 sensors to stay in the center. The disposable spo2 probe perfectly solves the problem by wrapping around the fingers.

(3) There are many irritable patients in neurosurgery. When clip-type spo2 sensors are clamped on the hand, they often fall when they lash their hand, which leads to failure on spo2 level reading and affects the disease observation. Also, they will dig the sensor with their finger causing the damage to the sensor.   If the doctors ask the patient for compensation, it may cause a conflict between the doctor and the patient. And if the department or doctor supports the cost, it would increase the department's cost. After using the disposable blood oxygen probe, there are no such problems.

(4) Patients with tracheotomy are accompanied by complicated lung infection, and the disposable blood oxygen probe can avoid cross-infection.

(5) The NICU patients are usually in severe condition, have low resistance, long hospitalization time, use more antibiotics, and are often complicated by multi-drug-resistant bacterial infections. Such patients need to be isolated and use a disposable blood oxygen probe for one-patient use.

(6) The reasonable price does not significantly increase the economic burden on patients.

(7) As the disposable spo2 sensor is only for single patient use, which reduces the terminal treatment and the nursing workload.

The things that need to pay attention to

We have to judge whether a patient needs a disposable spo2 sensor. Patients are in the NICU only for a short time. We have to avoid using disposable spo2 sensors to decline the economic burden on them.