September 10, 2008 – Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI), the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and Measure-Through-Motion-and-Low-Perfusion pulse oximetry, announced that all customers purchasing the Masimo Radical-7, the company's flagship product, will now receive Desat Index 3D Alarm as a standard feature. Conventional pulse oximeters typically alarm based on large and isolated drops in oxygen saturation values, known as a "desaturation". However, published research has shown that a cycle of moderate desaturations has been shown to precede respiratory failure in hospitalized patients.1, 2 Masimo Desat Index 3D Alarm enables advanced notification of these conditions, based on clinician-specified severity and number of desaturations occurring in a specified period of time... Masimo's Press Release -
