My wife was recently reviewing some pulse oxymeter notes while working a round of anesthesia. It took us a while to trace the logic through all the symbol changes and notation shifts, and my wife's math-discomfort and my bio-discomfort made us more cautious than it turns out we needed to be. There are a number of nice review articles out there that I turned up while looking for explicit derivations, but by the time I'd found them, my working notes had gotten fairly well polished themselves. So here's my contribution to the pulse-ox noise ;). Highlights include:
- Short and sweet (with pictures)
- Symbols table
- Baby steps during math manipulation