FIGURE 3
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Operational Evaluation of Pulse Oximetry in NICU Patients with Arterial Access
Dale Gerstmann, Ryan Berg, Ron Haskell, Cathy Brower, Kari Wood, Brad Yoder, Loren Greenway, Gordon Lassen, Robert Ogden, Ronald Stoddard and Stephen Minton
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Pulse oximeter bias function: other nicus. NICU "A" provided 95 paired SpO2 (Spacelabs) and SaO2 values. NICU "B" provided 168 paired values (Datex-Ohmeda 3740). The correlation coefficients for the pulse oximetry bias function for NICU "A" and "B" were: r=-0.92 (p<0.001) and r=-0.72 (p<0.001), respectively. At these sites as well, the pulse oximetry bias is seen to worsen as saturation values decrease.
