Conclusion
The development of a pulse oximeter as a component of CMS revealed that although the developed device is not autonomous, it only insignificantly increases the dimensions and cost of the CMS.
The manufactured experimental prototypes of pulse oximeters have been used for 1.5 years in the Departments of Resuscitation and Surgery, First Republican Clinical Hospital of the Udmurt Republic. The devices were united in a local computer network. Reanimatologists and anesthesiologists at the Department of Resuscitation reported that photoplethysmographic data, information on SpO2 level, and trends are most valuable for their work. In addition to these parameters, real-time graphical information on the SpO2 level was found to be extremely important during surgical operations because anesthesiologists use this information for compiling computer-assisted narcosis cards.
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Scientific-Manufacturing Company NIOTK AMNT RF, Izhevsk. Translated from Meditsinskaya Tekhnika, No. 6, pp. 26–28, November–December, 1996.
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Bagrin, S.V., Mogil'nikov, S.V. The pulse oximeter: an element of computer-assisted medical monitoring. Biomed Eng 30, 333–336 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02366011
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02366011