Those on the fingers monitor the pressure being exerted.
Two sensors attached to the fingers monitor pulse and skin conductance (sweat).
In another room, audience members wear blood-pressure finger monitors while a man, on video, asks questions: "Are you thinking or feeling?" Responses are shown on a split screen.
2. Arm monitors -- meaning, machines with a "cuff," or sleeve that fits on the upper arm -- tend to be more accurate than wrist monitors, according to the "call to action" statement, and finger monitors should generally be avoided.
Rage Control uses a device placed on a child's finger to monitor heart rate - if it gets too high, they lose the ability to shoot at enemy spaceships.
That report, obtained and released by journalist Mark Danner earlier this year, describes an episode during which a doctor used a pulse oxymeter (a medical device that is placed on a patient's finger) to monitor the blood-oxygen level of a detainee being waterboarded for an hour.
One example application is in the use of a spectrometer as a pulse oximeter, where the transmitted intensity through a finger is monitored and correlated through known absorption spectra to the concentration of oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin.
A sensor glove was developed based on resistive bend sensors and resistive force sensors to monitor finger joint angles and forces exerted to objects by fingers.
TheraSense, based in Alameda, Calif., makes FreeStyle brand monitoring systems, which require a smaller blood sample, produce faster results and are less painful to use than older finger-stick monitoring systems.
Women who had glucose levels ≥110 mg/dL at the end of treatment were asked to continue to monitor finger-stick glucose until glucose was normalized.
