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Cody Smith On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:39 PM Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > Merle, et al - > > Interesting article... > > We’ve had two life-threatening incidents, one trekking in Nepal and the > other in a remote part of Sri Lanka, where the availability of a pulse > oximeter made all the difference. We now routinely check our oxygenation > with one. > > Ed > > I have had some experience with a mountaineering spO2 meter and a Withings > fitness monitor with built in spO2... the fitness monitor required removing > the unit from the band and holding it diligently against the pad of a > finger, and that didn't always give a good reading, but once I understood > it's idiosyncracies it wasn't bad. both devices are long-since > nonfunctional (not to be worn swimming or in the shower it seems). > > It seems like IOT wearables (already saturating the market for fitness > applications) like my Withings could be getting better. Maybe even > good-enough to be useful in predicting/monitoring/tracking COVID19 > symptoms/onset, at least statistically... > > There is some precedent with the Kinsa effort to use their IOT > thermometer data to predict abnormal levels of influenza-like symptoms > <https://healthweather.us/?mode=Atypical>. > > There seem to be a number of pulse-oximeter fitness trackers. > > https://3dinsider.com/pulse-oximeter-fitness-trackers/ > > The Oura ring <https://ouraring.com/ucsf-tempredict-study>'s body > temperature sensing has already been pressed into service for a study. I > don't know if the "band" form factor is able to maintain good enough > skin-contact to be consistent... > > I just did a search on the topic > <https://www.google.com/search?q=fitness+activity+tracker+covid&oq=fitness+activity+tracker+covid&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.6879j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8> > and found a number of speculative popular articles on the topic, but > haven't had time to dig through them. > > This was one of the more promising: > > > https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/europe/fitbits-new-coronavirus-feature-can-connect-users-telemedicine-services-indoor-work-out > > Our own Mohammed El-Beltagy (cc;ed here) is CTO for a Swedish company ( > RaceFox <https://www.racefox.com/en/home>) doing using fitness monitors > for athletic performance enhancement. He may be more up on the > possibilities? > > - Steve > > _______________________ > > Ed Angel > > Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory > (ARTS Lab) > Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico > > 1017 Sierra Pinon > Santa Fe, NM 87501 > 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu > 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > > On Apr 23, 2020, at 6:32 PM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > > I found it credible. We're adding a pulse oximeter to the kit. > > There was another report, > https://meaww.com/six-austrian-divers-permanently-damaged-lungs-recovery-mild-coronavirus-covid-19. > scuba > divers recovered from mild covid infection and ended up with lungs so > damaged that it is not safe for them to dive anymore. So many people with > less demanding pastimes may be in a similar way but not manifesting the > problem, though a dive safety exam would turn it up, and maybe a pulse > oximeter, too. > > I wonder if any of those cell phone pulsimeters could be upgraded to > oximeters with some calibration? > > -- rec -- > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:32 PM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefk...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Has the list read this article in the NYTimes. 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