"Although absolute differences in readings were small, they can result in substantially higher rates of false negatives and ...

Fingertip monitors known as pulse oximeters that can be used at home to detect low blood oxygen levels (hypoxemia) give ...

A long-awaited study commissioned by the FDA has muddied the path forward on how to reduce racial bias in pulse oximeter ...

As an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Owais Durrani sees this issue regularly first-hand: When he clamps a pulse oximeter onto a patient's fingertip to measure their blood oxygen levels, the small ...

If you've ever been to a hospital, you've likely come across a pulse oximeter before. It's the little device they put on your finger with the red light. It's a non-invasive, pain-free way to measure ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pulse oximeter inaccuracy due to darker skin tones was found in 30 out of 44 studies. Some studies showed a ...

A pulse oximeter measures blood oxygen levels at home and in healthcare settings. Abnormally low readings on a pulse oximeter might require medical care, especially if they are below 92%. Skin color ...

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Tuesday will take up the issue of whether pulse oximeters, the ubiquitous medical devices that became a mainstay for assessing patient oxygen levels ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ashraf Fawzy remembers one patient, a Black woman with asthma, who arrived in the intensive care unit of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Despite her pulse oximeter ...