Is skin pigmentation the ultimate problem with pulse oximeters? Maybe, maybe not. “The question that everybody wants to know right now is: Which devices work equally well, regardless of skin ...

Researchers from UCSF are leading an effort to find out which pulse oximeters work equally well on all skin colors. NBC News' Erika Edwards reports.Jan. 19, 2025 ...

The problem with these medical devices, essential to treat COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses, lays bare how racial bias can affect healthcare in unexpected, harmful waysBy Catherine ...

WASHINGTON — Makers of medical devices that quickly measure oxygen levels in the blood would have to gather extra data to show that their products work ... apply to pulse oximeters, which ...

“We are very concerned,” said Dr. Michael Lipnick, an anesthesiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, whose work is dedicated to resolving how pulse oximeters perform on a variety of ...

Is skin pigmentation the ultimate problem with pulse oximeters? Maybe, maybe not. “The question that everybody wants to know right now is: Which devices work equally well, regardless of skin ...

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Makers of medical devices that quickly measure oxygen levels in the blood would have to gather extra data to show that their products work for patients of color ...

But her request for supplemental oxygen while hospitalized was denied, Starr said, because readings from a pulse oximeter on her finger falsely ... which measure oxygen levels in the blood, may not ...