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Autoclave is for sterilising stuff. A pulse oximeter very rarely needs to be sterile- they sit on your finger usually, and nearly all hospitals just wipe them clean after use.
They don't "just" wipe em clean. Yeah, me and you might think they do, but there's a bunch of steps they have to perform. Because if they don't, people literally die. And here's a study that emphasizes that being a risk with such a innocuous device. I mean, the WHO guidelines for cleaning them are literally 10 steps long.
And as I was finding the who guidelines again, I found another article that states that oximeters should be disposable when more than one patient is hooked to a machine. Guarantee a field hospital doesn't have dozens of those devices on hand, so we're back to disposables anyway.