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Chronicle Staff PAGE 14 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1985 Patients at Kitchenerâ€"Waterâ€" loo Hospital no longer must suffer the needle when having the oxygen level of their blood tested. Thanks to the recent donation of an $11,000 oximeter by the Twin Cities Kiwanis Club, such blood tests will be as painless as putting a plastic probe over your ear and/or finger. Information needed is gathered as a tiny light source in the probe passes light through the bloodâ€"filled tissue and is shown almost instantanâ€" eously on a monitor. Dr. Ken Kritzer, head of the hospital‘s cardioâ€"respiratory deâ€" partment, said the oximeter offers numerous advantages over previous testing methods, which involved taking a blood sample and sending it out to be No ABRLDL " A A ® Serond House trom SU“OA' Wagner s Corner or MORNING Herdelberg Rd SALES nB # + Waterino £EA_YARA? C.I.L. FALL FERTILIZER 25 kg BLACK CEDARS 2â€"2%‘| FRUIT TREES Best For Hedging *6.95 | Bearing Size *9.00â€"*12.00 Come and msit our outstanding assortment of hardy, chmatized. locally grown trees and shrubs 5â€"15° Red Maples. . from $12.00 5â€"20° Green Maples . from $9.00 2â€"15° Blue Spruce . from $16.00 Spreading Junipers . from $4.75 Pyramidal Junipers . from $6.75 Jap. Yews . .. from $12.75 Over 20,000 Trees from 2‘â€"20‘. 40 Acres of Shade Trees, Blue Spruce, Shrubs Seedlings and Fruit Trees. SALES ) mR #1, Waterloo _ 664â€"2482 Taking pain out of oxygen testing Oximeter at Kâ€"W Retail & Wholesale â€" Fully Guaranteed Tree & Shrub Sale mE . Plant , 10â€"12â€"18 +1 4.00 SPRUCE & PINE TREES 2 From analyzed in a laboratory. For example not only is the process painless, but results are more accurate and instantaneous. He added that the oximeter method is also much more cost efficient than laboratory analysis. The oximeter will be used to measure the oxygen saturation levels of patients of all ages. Kritzer said that typical cases where the machine will be used include patients suffering from asthma, chronic bronchitis, emâ€" physema and pneumonia. It will also be used to monitor oxygen levels during exercise tests, sleep disorder studies and operaâ€" tions. The oximeter is the first in Kâ€"W, hospital. Staff expect some 4,000 blood tests will be done using the machine in the first year alone. Fruit trees Colorado & Hoops: Biue Spruce Pine Firs Maples Wainuts Lindens Ash Flowenng Crab Birch Red White and Pyr English Oaks Locus® Mulberry Magnobia Jap Red Mapies Lifacs Hedge Plants Flowening Shrubs Raitway Tses Cedar rails Fertiizers Chemicals Cocc Sheils Bark E/‘ +1 6.00 2â€"10 Deb Somfay, supervisor of special testing, and Dr. Ken Kritzer show local Kiwanians Walter Boehmer and Herb Hoegler how Kâ€"W Hospital‘s new oximeter works. HERE‘S HOW Melodee Martinuk photo