Pulse oximetry in low-resource settings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; Lifebox Foundation, London, UK. Electronic address: nichole.starr@ucsf.edu.
² Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
³ Jhpiego Ethiopia Country Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Ethiopian Association of Anesthetists, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁴ Ethiopian Association of Anesthetists, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Addis Ababa University College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁵ Ethiopian Association of Anesthetists, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁶ Lifebox Foundation, London, UK.
⁷ Lifebox Foundation, London, UK; Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK.
⁸ Addis Ababa University College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Ethiopian Society of Anesthesiologists, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁹ Lifebox Foundation, London, UK; Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Nichole Starr et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;8(9):e1121-e1122.

doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30287-4. Epub 2020 Jul 3.

¹ Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; Lifebox Foundation, London, UK. Electronic address: nichole.starr@ucsf.edu.
² Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
³ Jhpiego Ethiopia Country Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Ethiopian Association of Anesthetists, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁴ Ethiopian Association of Anesthetists, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Addis Ababa University College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁵ Ethiopian Association of Anesthetists, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁶ Lifebox Foundation, London, UK.
⁷ Lifebox Foundation, London, UK; Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK.
⁸ Addis Ababa University College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Ethiopian Society of Anesthesiologists, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁹ Lifebox Foundation, London, UK; Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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