Development of an artificial vital sign generator for pulse oximeter
Tomoyasu Ichimura1, Hiroshi Endoh
1Department of Electronic Control Engineering, Oyama National College of Technology, Tochigi 323-0806, Japan. ichimura@oyama-ct.ac.jp
Abstract:
This paper presents an artificial vital sign generator that enables medical trainees to measure SpO(2) and the pulse rate of a patient simulator using a pulse oximeter. The proposed system has a biological model that possesses a structure that is the inverse of a pulse oximeter probe, and it works using the inverse procedure to that of pulse oximetry. The SpO(2) generating function has been validated using two commercially available pulse oximeters.
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