Photo Credit: Uusi Ajaja Creative Commons

Joining us IN PERSON – just turn up, there’s no need to register
Joining us ONLINE – click on this zoom link before the event to join in

This is a joint event with Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum

Of the gases involved in life, oxygen is the most important!

This lecture relates the history of measurement of oxygen in medicine, as a gas, in solution in bodily fluids and on haemoglobin; from the Haldane apparatus to Pulse Oximetry.

As a gas:

• Haldane
• Paramagnetic
• (Raman spectroscopy)*
• (Mass spectroscopy)*
• Acoustic
• Fuel Cell

Dissolved in Plama:

• Clark electrode

Attached to Haemoglobin:

• Non-invasive “Oximetry”
• Pulse Oximetry

*Research only

About the Speaker

Dr John Moyle is a Chartered Engineer, retired physician & anaesthetist plus historian with a particular interest in telegraphy and medical technology.