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, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ — 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 was used in the effort to rescue 33
Chilean miners who were trapped in a Copiapo, Chile mine since
August 5.

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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®
technology to Zephyr Technology’s BioHarness™ First Responder
System. The BioHarness, a chest

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