Fifteen bucks and it'll outlast us all
By Abby Turner, Melbourne ยท
Every ED I've worked in has at least one of these hanging off a scrub top or a lanyard. Nobody minds if it gets lost or splashed with something awful.
It weighs nothing, it's 8.5 mm thick, there's an alarm, a stopwatch, a backlight that's honestly pretty dim, and the battery goes for years. The seconds are shown as a digit, so it's fine for counting a pulse. The acrylic will scratch and the 30 m rating means don't swim in it, but at US$15 to $25, who cares. Buy two, keep one in the car.