1. Reliability of the Pulse Oximeter
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J. E. Cade, B. G. Lee, and P. T. Morley
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Pulse oximetry ,Materials science ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Pulse (signal processing) ,Intensive care ,medicine ,Gas analyser ,Reliability (statistics) ,Blood gas analysis ,Biomedical engineering ,Oxygen saturation (medicine) ,Pulse oximeters - Abstract
Despite the fact that pulse oximeters are now used routinely in most intensive care units, clinical experience suggests that the results from these noninvasive instruments do not always correlate with results for oxygen saturation from conventional blood gas analysis. The aim of this study was to directly compare the results obtained by pulse oximetry to those obtained by a blood gas analyser and co-oximeter.
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- 1997
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