Is that a rectal thermometer? Cody Smith
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:16 PM Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > sew one into your mask with an LED readout so everyone can see your spO2, > heart rate and temperature? > > https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11050 (just hold this one under your > tongue) while masked? > On 4/23/20 8:59 PM, cody dooderson wrote: > > If anyone needs an idea for a microbit project here is one, > https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15271 . > > > > Cody Smith > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:39 PM Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > >> Merle, et al - >> >> Interesting article... >> >> We’ve had two life-threatening incidents, one trekking in Nepal and the >> other in a remote part of Sri Lanka, where the availability of a pulse >> oximeter made all the difference. We now routinely check our oxygenation >> with one. >> >> Ed >> >> I have had some experience with a mountaineering spO2 meter and a >> Withings fitness monitor with built in spO2... the fitness monitor required >> removing the unit from the band and holding it diligently against the pad >> of a finger, and that didn't always give a good reading, but once I >> understood it's idiosyncracies it wasn't bad. both devices are long-since >> nonfunctional (not to be worn swimming or in the shower it seems). >> >> It seems like IOT wearables (already saturating the market for fitness >> applications) like my Withings could be getting better. Maybe even >> good-enough to be useful in predicting/monitoring/tracking COVID19 >> symptoms/onset, at least statistically... >> >> There is some precedent with the Kinsa effort to use their IOT >> thermometer data to predict abnormal levels of influenza-like symptoms >> <https://healthweather.us/?mode=Atypical>. >> >> There seem to be a number of pulse-oximeter fitness trackers. >> >> https://3dinsider.com/pulse-oximeter-fitness-trackers/ >> >> The Oura ring <https://ouraring.com/ucsf-tempredict-study>'s body >> temperature sensing has already been pressed into service for a study. I >> don't know if the "band" form factor is able to maintain good enough >> skin-contact to be consistent... >> >> I just did a search on the topic >> <https://www.google.com/search?q=fitness+activity+tracker+covid&oq=fitness+activity+tracker+covid&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.6879j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8> >> and found a number of speculative popular articles on the topic, but >> haven't had time to dig through them. >> >> This was one of the more promising: >> >> >> https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/europe/fitbits-new-coronavirus-feature-can-connect-users-telemedicine-services-indoor-work-out >> >> Our own Mohammed El-Beltagy (cc;ed here) is CTO for a Swedish company ( >> RaceFox <https://www.racefox.com/en/home>) doing using fitness monitors >> for athletic performance enhancement. He may be more up on the >> possibilities? >> >> - Steve >> >> _______________________ >> >> Ed Angel >> >> Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory >> (ARTS Lab) >> Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico >> >> 1017 Sierra Pinon >> Santa Fe, NM 87501 >> 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu >> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel >> >> On Apr 23, 2020, at 6:32 PM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: >> >> I found it credible. We're adding a pulse oximeter to the kit. >> >> There was another report, >> https://meaww.com/six-austrian-divers-permanently-damaged-lungs-recovery-mild-coronavirus-covid-19. >> scuba >> divers recovered from mild covid infection and ended up with lungs so >> damaged that it is not safe for them to dive anymore. So many people with >> less demanding pastimes may be in a similar way but not manifesting the >> problem, though a dive safety exam would turn it up, and maybe a pulse >> oximeter, too. >> >> I wonder if any of those cell phone pulsimeters could be upgraded to >> oximeters with some calibration? >> >> -- rec -- >> >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:32 PM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefk...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Has the list read this article in the NYTimes. 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