| 11. | For all the benefits of Kiani's oximeter, many hospitals would not buy it.
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| 12. | They had read about the hospital's need for a pulse oximeter in the newspapers.
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| 13. | In 1964 Shaw assembled the first absolute reading ear oximeter by using eight wavelengths of light.
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| 14. | A pulse oximeter, which is clipped to a finger or toe, measures blood oxygen levels.
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| 15. | By the mid-1990s, Kiani was convinced his new oximeter had solved those critical problems.
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| 16. | The OxiFirst, like other pulse oximeters, works by measuring light waves passing through the skin.
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| 17. | Biox was founded in 1979, and introduced the first pulse oximeter to commercial distribution in 1981.
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| 18. | He also developed the first pulse oximeter, but Beckman Instruments was not interested in marketing it.
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| 19. | Several hospitals that compared Masimo's device to conventional oximeters concluded that Masimo's was better.
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| 20. | He said this during the presentation of a Pulse Oximeter to the Paediatric Institute by the Maybank Group.
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