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RE: Comparing Oximeters - I should have known better... - Moriarty - 02-12-2013
(02-12-2013, 11:18 AM)JJJ Wrote: Amazingly, there are computers that are not Mac or Windows.
Of course - but I figured if you were a linux/BSD/xNIX user you would already have had a go at wine.
... unless of course you use something _really_ obscure???
I am continually surprised at the programs people get to run in wine. I have only tinkered to see how it worked. IIRC wine is also ported to the current MacOS. I stick with windows though and use VMware to support an Ubuntu partition for the little bit stuff I do with Linux. The reverse also is commonly done with VMWare or similar making a windows partition on the xNix machine..
I started with Mini-computers in the 70's... PDP-8 and a little heard of General Automation SPC16/40
RE: Comparing Oximeters - I should have known better... - Moriarty - 02-12-2013
Forgive me if this is old news but...
I was interested to discover in some reading last night that optical oximeters (some at least) use two light emitters - one Infra Red and the other visible red - to sense the blood properties.
Apparently they look at the balance between the intensities of the two wavelengths as transmitted through the finger or ear-lobe to determine the SpO2.
RE: Comparing Oximeters - I should have known better... - DocWils - 02-12-2013
Moriarty - the methods have become pretty standardised and work pretty well, at least we think they do - it all sort of began with some guy shining a flashlight through his hand and wondering if there could be something useful in it. I think these are some pretty clever guys.
Heck, I think the stethoscope and the reflex hammer are darned clever too. It makes my life easier, anyway. Glad I don't live back in the seventeenth century - imagine going to a proctologist back then, with candles? Ouch!
RE: Comparing Oximeters - I should have known better... - Moriarty - 02-12-2013
(02-12-2013, 06:06 PM)wilorg Wrote: Glad I don't live back in the seventeenth century - imagine going to a proctologist back then, with candles? Ouch!
Sorry wilorg... WAAAAAy to much information....
RE: Comparing Oximeters - I should have known better... - DocWils - 02-12-2013
Thought it was more humorous and less gruesome than describing surgery one hundred years ago or more.... just be glad you live today.... trust me on this one....