The Impact of Continuous Pulse Oximetry Monitoring on Intensive Care Unit Admissions from a Postsurgical Care Floor

Continuous pulse oximetry (CPOX) has the potential to increase vigilance and decrease pulmonary complications and thus decrease intensive care unit (ICU) admissions. In a randomized nonblinded study of 1219 subjects we compared the effects of CPOX and standard monitoring on the rate of transfer to a