A long-awaited study commissioned by the FDA has muddied the path forward on how to reduce racial bias in pulse oximeter ...
Pulse oximeters use light to measure how much oxygen is in a person’s blood. For most people, a normal pulse oximeter reading is between 95% and 100%, researchers said in background notes. Readings ...
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Pulse oximeter failings for darker-skinned people might not have a simple solution
Two studies suggest both under- and over-estimation of blood oxygen levels ...
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 ...
The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure. She has ...
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Pulse oximeters miss hypoxemia more often in people with darker skin, study finds
By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD A major UK study shows that commonly used home pulse oximeters can overestimate oxygen levels in ...
Correspondence to: TS Valley thomas.valley@cuanschutz.edu ...
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