It wasn’t until the pandemic that the real dangers to Black patients became clear. In 2021, the Food and Drug Administration warned about flawed pulse oximeter readings on darker skin.

It's a device most patients will recognize from their most recent doctor's appointment: a small plastic clip attached to their finger that measures the levels of oxygen in their blood. Called a ...

“And the pulse oximeter is used from any age to geriatrics,” he said. “This is a tool that is used on all patients, and right now, as with the height of the pandemic, it’s a tool that is ...

Over the past two years, the pulse oximeter has become a crucial tool for tracking the health of COVID-19 patients. The small device clips onto a finger and measures the amount of oxygen in a ...

New research sheds light on the widespread discrepancies of pulse oximeter accuracy among patients of color. The devices are used in both veterans and commercial hospitals. Authors caution ...

Months later, in December 2020, Aboelata thought back to her patient as she read a New England Journal of Medicine article showing that pulse oximeters were three times as likely to miss ...

Patients with darker skin who received less accurate readings of their oxygen levels using pulse oximeters — the ubiquitous devices clamped on hospitalized patients’ fingers — also received ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a long-awaited plan aimed at improving how pulse oximeters work on people with darker skin — an effort that comes years after research showing ...

Racial disparities in care among hospital patients may be tied to inaccuracies in pulse oximeter readings, a new study found. The research, led by a team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ...

Oakland, California — The patient was in his 60s ... Its regulatory pathway for pulse oximeters clears them for sale as long as they show "substantial equivalence" to devices already on the ...