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 _______________________ 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 <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > On Apr 24, 2020, at 9:46 AM, <thompnicks...@gmail.com> > <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 > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > thompnicks...@gmail.com <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> > > > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On > Behalf Of Roger Critchlow > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 9:40 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com > <mailto:friam@redfish.com>> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] New information on COVID-19 > > > > 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 > <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 > <https://github.com/YahyaOdeh/HealthWatcher>, with some more method > references, the https://github.com/topics/spo2 > <https://github.com/topics/spo2> listing has a bunch of arduino projects, too. > > -- rec -- > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/>
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