The last time you were in the emergency room after a horrible accident involving a PVC pressure vessel, a nurse probably clipped a device called a pulse oximeter onto one of your remaining fingers.

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Around 1 in 100 infants born each year in the U.S. have a heart defect, and pulse oximetry screening is estimated to help single out over 90% of cases. Since 2018, all 50 states and Washington ...

Pulse oximetry has been suggested as the preferred tool for continuos monitoring of patients at risk for the SIDS/ALTE/Apnea clinical complex. Technical difficulties related to difficulty of long ...