1995, The Society for Technology in Anesthesia (STA) an international organization of physicians, engineers, students and others with an interest in anesthesia-related technologies, has chosen Dr. Steven Barker and Masimo Corporation researchers Ebrahim Elfadel and Walt Weber as the recipients of this year’s STA Excellence in Technology Innovation Award. This award recognizes excellence in technologies that benefit patients and caregivers in the area anesthesiology especially technologies that address high priority needs of the practice of anesthesia. Dr. Barker and coauthors are being recognized for their abstract "Motion-Resistant Pulse Oximetry" which showed the superior performance of Masimo SET® Pulse Oximetry compared conventional pulse oximetry.
