Wednesday Jun 26, 2019

Babies! Dusky ones and chilly ones and Port Vale too. Archimedes July 2019

All over the world, tonight, you can hear the sound of babies being examined for covert abnormalities. One of those tests would be the click-hip-thing, one pulse oximetry. Can we make pulse oximetry better though - well here’s an Archi that asks just that (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/5/504). More babies could be found in those very special fish tanks with portholes - popping them out of those and into cots would be nicer for the families but maybe harder for the smallest children to grow and stay stable in temperature. The question you’re asking is clearly ‘but is 1.6kg big enough?’ … (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/7/707.1)

To start with we question the value of knowing things (https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2019/04/25/look-away-now-if-you-dont-want-to-know-the-results/) but if you do want to know things, and we’ve not covered them, why not have a crack at your own Archi and submit it to us?

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