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The accuracy of pulse oximeters
Author(s) -
TAYLOR M. B.,
WHITWAM J. G.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1988.tb05549.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pulse oximetry , pulse (music) , saturation (graph theory) , anesthesia , arterial blood , oxygen saturation , oxygen , optics , chemistry , physics , mathematics , organic chemistry , combinatorics , detector
Summary The accuracy of five commercially available pulse oximeters was compared against arterial blood oxygen saturation, under similar clinical conditions. The oximeters had very similar performance in the clinically useful range of 80–100%, with a tendency slightly to underestimate the true saturation.