Monthly Archives: May 2010
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May 19, 2010
Nonin Medical's Onyx® II 9560 Wireless Pulse Oximeter Aids Chilean Miner Rescue:
Company to also donate in-home monitoring equipment for miners' post-event care Minneapolis, Minn.--(PR Newswire)--Oct. 13, 2010--Nonin Medical, Inc., the inventor of the world's first fingertip and wireless-fingertip pulse oximeter, announced today that its Onyx® II 9560 wireless fingertip pulse oximeter is being used to aid in the ongoing rescue of 33 Chilean miners who have been trapped in a Copiapo, Chile mine since August 5.
The Onyx® II Model 9560 Wireless Pulse Oximeter is being used by physicians at the scene to capture the miners' blood oxygenation and heart rate data in real time during and after each miner's 20-minute, half-mile rescue-capsule ascent to the surface. Placed on the miner's index finger, the Onyx II 9560 wirelessly transmits blood oxygen saturation and heart data via Bluetooth®
