Coronavirus: Pulse Oximetry

(asked on 6th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of encouraging households to obtain and learn how to use a pulse oximeter as an aid to reliable remote assessment of whether hospital admission for covid-19 is advisable; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 18th May 2020

For patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, the monitoring and identification of ‘silent hypoxia’ and rapid patient deterioration at home is important. General practitioner practices already issue pulse oximeters to help diagnose and monitor patients, and NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with NHSX to look at how capacity can be boosted in a number of ways to support remote monitoring.

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