Glycine fob watch

WildRosie

I got this fob watch as a Christmas present but it didn't come with any instructions. The bottom button on the right turns on the backlight, the middle one adjusts the hands but I can't figure out what the top one does/should do. Can anyone enlighten me? Also the red numbers around the outside, base 30 pulsations, are for measuring heart rate. Would anyone know how this works? I've googled but can't find anything that actually explains it. Thanks

Mredsnapper

WildRosie wrote: »

I got this fob watch as a Christmas present but it didn't come with any instructions. The bottom button on the right turns on the backlight, the middle one adjusts the hands but I can't figure out what the top one does/should do. Can anyone enlighten me? Also the red numbers around the outside, base 30 pulsations, are for measuring heart rate. Would anyone know how this works? I've googled but can't find anything that actually explains it. Thanks

The top button probably controls the red chronograph hand. Im guessing (someone else may correct me) the pulsometer is probably used similarly to a tachymeter. Start the cronograph and count a set number of beats. When you have counted to x number of beats stop the chronograph hand and it will tell you the Beats Per Minute On The graph along the edge.

Zagato

Mredsnapper wrote: »

The top button probably controls the red chronograph hand. Im guessing (someone else may correct me) the pulsometer is probably used similarly to a tachymeter. Start the cronograph and count a set number of beats. When you have counted to x number of beats stop the chronograph hand and it will tell you the Beats Per Minute On The graph along the edge.

where x = 30 (which is why it is for 30 pulsations)

Wibbs

+1 as it's a design more known as a nurses watch. Usually attached to a top pocket. Always thought they were a cool design. The top button probably starts, stops and then resets to zero the chronograph function(red stopwatch hand). That's usually how one button chronographs work.

WildRosie

Thank you all. It came with contact details for a place in Temple Bar to bring it to if there's a problem which I think I'll do as the top button doesn't seem to be working and doesn't seem to depress quite as well as the other. No big deal as I won't be allowed use anything as high tech as that on placement will have to just count for the full 60 seconds!

coylemj

WildRosie wrote: »

Thank you all. It came with contact details for a place in Temple Bar to bring it to if there's a problem which I think I'll do as the top button doesn't seem to be working and doesn't seem to depress quite as well as the other. No big deal as I won't be allowed use anything as high tech as that on placement will have to just count for the full 60 seconds!

Nurses nowadays clip a plastic crocodile clip onto the patient's index finger to measure his/her pulse.

WildRosie

coylemj wrote: »

Nurses nowadays clip a plastic crocodile clip onto the patient's index finger to measure his/her pulse.

Nowadays, Student Nurses on their first placements must measure pulse and blood pressure manually, plus you can only measure rate with a pulse oximeter, not volume or rhythm. In infants and children under 2 years of age, the gold standard for measuring heart rate is by auscultation (listening to the heart with a stethoscope) so a pulse oximeter isn't much use there either (I'm doing peads nursing). A fob watch, however, is very useful. But thanks for the tip

fishguy

That would be a clip for a pulsoximeter. It does in deed give a reading on the pulse but it is not very reliable. Most of the A&E stuff is still reading the pulse palpating the radial or the carotid pulse and counting it the old way. These watches are actually quite handy.