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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Diagnosis after Oximetry test

Posted by ChuckS on May 20, 2002 at 07:33:21:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Diagnosis after Oximetry test posted by Engineer on May 18, 2002 at 16:53:53:

2) This is a very wild guess, but maybe the oximeter just happened to sample your O2 in the middle of apneas for those intervals.It would have to sample fairly fast to measure heart rate, but maybe the sample time for O2 is different than for heart rate.

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