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The pulse oximetry ‘epidemic’, or the limitations of pulse oximetry
Pulse oximetry in practice Pulse oximetry first became available in the mid-1980s and has since become the most common form of medical electronic monitoring. It has far outstripped electrocardiography (ECG) as the pulse oximeters are cheap to produce and easy to apply. However useful they may appear, in the vast majority of situations, clinical decisions are made by those who […]
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