Outline the clinical application of pulse oximetry

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A nurse working in an extended care facility asks you to outline the clinical application of pulse oximetry. You would provide all of the following information about the use of the pulse oximeter except:

It is a useful to monitor a patient's ventilatory status SpO2 of >95% correlates closely with a PaO2 of >90 mm Hg. It is a noninvasive device Pulse oximetry value is expressed in percent oxygen saturation.

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