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- measuring oxygen saturation in clinical use.[citation needed] A standard pulse oximeter p****es two wavelengths of light through tissue to a photodetector. Taking...
- A CO-oximeter is a device that measures the oxygen carrying state of hemoglobin in a blood specimen, including oxygen-carrying hemoglobin (O2Hb), non-oxygen-carrying...
- obtained by using a pulse oximeter which illuminates the skin and measures changes in light absorption. A conventional pulse oximeter monitors the perfusion...
- curve and approaches 100% at partial oxygen pressures of >11 kPa. A pulse oximeter relies on the light absorption characteristics of saturated hemoglobin...
- mountaineer. Millikan invented the first practical, portable oximeter in 1940–1942. The Millikan oximeter "is generally acknowledged as the beginning of oximetry...
- and cardiac ****essment. One of the key tools in diagnosing is a pulse oximeter to determine oxygen saturation. While severe cyanosis can be easily noticed...
- on the adjacent tooth to ensure further accuracy of results. The pulse oximeter test is a more accurate way to test for necrotic pulps as it primarily...
- technology company known for the development of the first widely used pulse oximeter. Michael Hickey, Scott Wilber, and Bill Moe founded Biox Technology in...
- of pulse oximetry. Two years later he developed the world's first pulse oximeter, the OLV-5100, which has helped improve patient safety during anaesthesia...
- methemoglobinemia. A higher level of methemoglobin will tend to cause a pulse oximeter to read closer to 85% regardless of the true level of oxygen saturation...