Excellent idea. After reading the article Merle linked, I ordered one
myself.
I also found that rumor has it that an oximeter will be built into the
next Apple watch and the next Watch OS. There is also a possibility
that the software will work with existing Apple watches.
I just made a suggestion to Apple that IF the latter is true, they might
consider releasing that part of their software as an app now. I.e., not
wait until September. That would be an easy way to get something
helpful out now, rather than injecting disinfectant as our esteemed
leader has suggested as a cure.
Joe
On 4/24/20 10:08 AM, Edward Angel wrote:
The point is that if you check your blood oxygen level you might catch
the problem before it is so bad that you have to be put on a
ventilator and probably won’t survive.
Ed
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On Apr 24, 2020, at 9:46 AM, <thompnicks...@gmail.com
<mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com>> <thompnicks...@gmail.com
<mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Remind me, someone. Why are we all buying oximeters? I thought the
burden of the Times article was that IF you are sick from a “cold”,
don’t wait to test your O2 levels until you EXPERIENCE difficulty
breathing, because by then it might be too late. Do you all have
colds? I suppose, given that it takes Amazon six weeks to get one,
you are wise to get a jump on it.
Nick
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:32 PM Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org
<mailto:r...@elf.org>> wrote:
I wonder if any of those cell phone pulsimeters could be upgraded to
oximeters with some calibration?
There are a bunch of cell phone pulse oximeter apps that use the cell
phone flash and camera, but I don't get the feeling that they've been
calibrated much. It's a lot easier to write the code, call it
entertainment, and reap the ad revenues that to actually determine
what the measurement means in the general population. Some apps have
even added some of the other pulse oximeter functions, perfusion,
respiratory pleth, Then, again,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2921597 says "Smartphone-based
pulse oximetry is not inferior to standard pulse oximetry in
pediatric patients without hypoxia. Reliability was superior for PBA
compared with CBA, with more precise agreement for the PBA compared
with the CBA. Future studies should test pulse oximetry apps in a
hypoxic pediatric population." That was published in 2018.
There's an interesting series of press releases from UIUC claiming
that measuring someone's gait (with cellphone accelerometers) over a
6 minute walk is enough to get a good estimate of O_2 saturation,
because people who aren't getting enough O_2 apparently walk funny.
Here's an android app on github,
https://github.com/YahyaOdeh/HealthWatcher, with some more method
references, the https://github.com/topics/spo2 listing has a bunch of
arduino projects, too.
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