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